The breaking point, he said, was when she gave him too much money for a 60-cent bag of chips.
Oh man I can see how that would be just the most horrible thing in the universe. He got the incorrect amount for a bag of chips!
"You can't count?" he recalls asking.
Wait! Is this any way to talk to a customer?
That's when he said the girl began calling him names, spat at him and threw the two nickels he returned to her at his head.
An over reaction? Oh yes! But who was it that started it? It wasn't her.
"She wanted to stand in the middle of the store and argue with me like a grownup," Grigsby said. "Somebody's got to step up and say, `You can't act like that in public.'"
You can't argue in public? Gee I did not know that. Maybe someone should say the same to him?
Speaking as a adult I would have left the chips and never darkened the door of this establishment again. The owner was rude. the owner, from his own mouth, confessed to hurling the first insult and that the insult was unprovoked.
Prediction. She will end up owning her first business before she turns fourteen.
He will get his, she is the one getting off. This is a double standard, both should be dealt with.
You're right --- he did provoke her --- and probably just for the jollies he'd get out of spanking her. He could have called her parents, he could have called the police, he had no right at all to get aggressive with her. He'll know use his "culture" as an excuse ---- he can't adapt to American culture after all and the fact that here you don't go around smacking up other people's kids. If it's so much worse here than in Haiti because the kids might be sassier --- then he should be deported back to Haiti where everything is better.