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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/BushyEyes on 2023-07-29 05:01:40.

I worked in retail over 10 years ago but I still have vivid flashbacks to the orange man and I’m positive this is my villain origin story.

I worked at a local grocery store in a very small town where you know all the regulars. I was a cashier to CSR to cash office person and don’t ask me why, but 17 year old me took my job very seriously. When I was CSR, I ran that place like a well-oiled machine. Like deep-cleaning every nook and cranny, we all spot our dots, and no one’s till was ever off. I just honestly loved the grocery store and I loved feeling like everything was running smoothly and lines were moving and customers were happy. I really liked my job, but I was also a little inflexible when it came to rules sometimes and I had an occasional power trip 😂

One day, this old guy’s oranges rang up wrong but I caught it before he hardly even noticed because I always memorized sales prices of popular items. I adjusted the price before he paid but when he saw I did that, he was adamant that the “if you pay the wrong price it’s free” policy applied. Me being the rule queen was adamant it didn’t since he didn’t actually PAY the wrong price, and I was fully prepared to die on this hill, so we got in a big fight.

He finally relented and paid but immediately went to the store manager who just wanted everyone in the town to like him and gave him his money back.

This dude did a full-on champion walk out of the store wagging his finger at me and swinging his oranges around like he owned the place. To this day, I occasionally get hit with a mental image of that man totally rubbing it in my face that he had won the battle. I never forgave the manager for that one either 😂