Your mother should be flayed for having you

What in the seven tiramisu layers of hell is wrong with people?! I watched a guy, a normal seemingly unimpaired man, knock some shelves consequently sending movie boxes cascading to the ground with a rippling clatter. Did he look abashed? Did he demonstrate any loss of composure for creating such a mess and racket? Not at all. He simply swanned away.

Notice how I don't mention anything about his efforts to clean up the fallen merchandise. That would be because he couldn't be bloody bothered to give a shit! It was for someone else to handle. He was a customer and therefore shouldn't need to exert himself in any such direction.

I hotly debated in those initial few seconds as I assessed the situation dressing him down roundly for demonstrating the manners and concern of a toddler. I contemplated refusing his custom outright as he meandered toward the counter. I let him cool his heels waiting to be rung up while I took my time cleaning up the shambles he'd generated and assisted other customers instead. I had a feeling that being inconvenienced would perhaps get through where words would have fallen upon deaf ears.

Few things so suffuse me with rage as adults who cannot comport themselves as more than self-important chattel. If you make a fucking mess, you do something about it. You clean it up if you can. You get assistance if you can't. At the very least, you minimize the fucking damage. You do not just ignore it until someone else takes action.

At his age, his parents should have been dragged forth from their nursing home to suffer a lash for every movie box he set to tumbling since they must have resoundingly failed to instill better values in their darling boy. His children and grandchildren should be cut down to drown in their own blood at his feet to save society from the perpetuation of such blindingly stupid boorishness. After all, if he's too good to pick up after himself, he's too good to actually bear any consequences personally. Since he's so unconcerned about what others may have to do to correct his errors, there's no point in attempting to moderate the punishment with the crime. One could hope this would catch his attention however. If not, his subsequent execution should conclude the whole matter unequivocally.

It's the little things.