History WMG / NotAlwaysRight

* It's also likely that a lot of the stories are streamlined or otherwise minorly edited; most people simply aren't going to remember an incident word-for-word in the first place, so their recounting is likely to be less than perfectly accurate.

* For a while there was a suspicious glut of stories where the LaserGuidedKarma came in the form of a police officer who just happened to be behind the abusive (or scamming) customer in line. Those seemed to stop appearing when commenters on their facebook community started questioning how plausible it was that this would keep happening so often.

** The formula of the stories can be explained, in part, but the fact that most business / retail transactions in general tend to follow the same formula anyway (customer approaches business, transaction occurs, customer leaves), meaning there's not going to be a huge room for variation to begin with.
** The unusual stories stick in the memory more. The people who submit to the site probably have to deal with any number of rude, irritating or deceitful customers on a given day, but most of them don't make the site because they're not very interesting or are easily forgotten. The idiot who tried to steal with a cop standing right behind him or the nice customer who stood up for you when some jackass was screaming at you, conversely, sticks out a bit more.

*** One story in particular was obviously fake, to the point where you wonder why they even bothered. The mixed-race daughter of an Arab woman and a white man is in a restaurant when the waitress starts presuming she's adopted. She's not even remotely malicious about it, just ignorant. When the daughter says that the woman's her biological mother, she suddenly flips out for no reason, screams racial obscenities, and says that she's being kidnapped and tries to "rescue" her. And then when the father arrives she asks why they didn't just tell her he was white and none of it would have happened? How on earth could anyone be fooled by such rubbish? Yes, idiots like the waitress do unfortunately exist, but if she was racist to such a degree why didn't she have any problems with her being adopted? Why is she a-okay with an interracial relationship, but not with an Arab woman having a white child?

* Given the formulas, it's possible that a single event would end up creating multiple different accounts as well, especially if we're hearing about it second- or third- or nth- hand, after it's been telephone-effect'd into an UrbanLegend.

[[WMG: The commenters who claim "I'm sure this story has been made up" are the jerk customers from the stories]]
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[[WMG: AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The friend in [[https://notalwaysright.com/causing-a-divide/29243/ this Not Always Friendly post]] isn't TheDitz that the submitter makes her out to be, she just frequently employs ObfuscatingStupidity]]
* In this particular situation it makes sense anyway: She had no interest in the boy, but rather than turn down his flirtations outright, she pretended to be completely oblivious to them, knowing it would make him give up more quickly.

[[WMG: The manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/shift-your-gears-for-the-shift/60692/ this Not Always Working Post]] knew the submitter had the day off all along]]