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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/random_man1234 on 2025-08-26 04:24:50+00:00.

I work in a small store that has self-checkouts and regular cashiers. For what it’s worth, the company I work for is super cheap and often times the cashier will need to step away briefly to fix an aisle or help a coworker. That guy was me today and I needed to clean up a spill that was 3/4s down an aisle. So a bit of a piss-off but whatever. As I’m doing that, a 40ish-year-old guy signals me to cash and has two small containers in his hand. I didn’t want to open the cash because I don’t want a long line forming so I decided I’d take him on self checkout, but I’d just do it for him while he just stands pretty beside me. Simple, right? Nope! He VEHEMENTLY says no to self, even with him having to do nothing and that it’s his “freedom of choice” to choose what he wants. Right as he says that, I just sighed and said whatever, man. Took him on cash. I bit my tongue because I wanted to call him overdramatic, but I told him that people are gonna use it regardless if you try to make a statement. And he replied with the “Oh well, it’s my freedom of choice”. I genuinely cannot believe these chronically-online Facebook people exist in the real world because my god, they’re so overdramatic and corny.