I went into the liquor store to pick up a bottle of wine for a party this evening. As I was in line to pay, one of the employees walked in front of me and leered. I ignored him and continued to look straight ahead. When I got to the cashier, the same employee came up and stood directly beside me and asked the (male) cashier if I had smiled. The cashier said that I hadn’t, and asked me why I wasn’t smiling. I didn’t know what to say, so I just said something about not wanting to.
Both men continued to tell me to smile and ask me why I wasn’t smiling throughout the transaction, and the first man even told the cashier not to let me leave until I’d smiled. Luckily, they didn’t actually try to stop me, and I got out of there as quickly as possible.
– Anonymous
Location: Greenbelt Liquors, 6000 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD
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