“Unless we hear a Rest of the Story from Ralph’s.”
Your response seems to intimate that this Freeper may be a liar. And, that Ralph’s may have a valid excuse for not honoring the man’s ticket.
Let’s say for argument’s sake the clerk was justifiably suspicious. That does not excuse the clerks refusal to allow the Freeper to speak with the store manager.
Unless you’re going to assert that this is also a lie by the poster?
Unless you, just postulate without evidence this story is complete BS, and nothing the man states is how it went down.
Perhaps the store manager’s spouse just died. Perhaps the manager is contemplating suicide.
For point of reference, I don’t believe that the FR poster has any likelyhood of posting a falsehood. I DO understand that some things unseen happen to our inconvenience. Which is all that the FReeper endured. Inconvenience. Not theft, not assault, not arrest. Inconvenience. And yes, there could be employee’s incompetence.
Once i had occasion to be at a gas pump, sitting in my truck, and a young irate woman beat on my driver side window, yelling at me to move. When she finally shut up for two seconds, I apologized and stated truthfully that i was on the phone and just heard that a dear friend had died unexpectedly, within the hour. “Oh,”, she said, “sorry “, she said, “I’m in a hurry” , she said.
We don’t know the rest of the story. We could all be like my impatient liberal wife and
say “that’s not helping me”.