A guy at Home Depot called me out and demanded that I sing the National Anthem for him

Weren’t you just posting about having trouble relating to people in job interviews?

Amazing story! I just saved it to my hard drive and will tell it to my great grand kids.

I went to Home Depot to buy gardening soil, manure, and topsoil. I also went there to buy a mattock.

Within walking twenty seconds into Home Depot, that clerk called me out.

I look much younger than my age but who is he to demand that I sing the National Anthem for him?

pond scum wrote:

I went to Home Depot to buy gardening soil, manure, and topsoil. I also went there to buy a mattock.

Within walking twenty seconds into Home Depot, that clerk called me out.

I look much younger than my age but who is he to demand that I sing the National Anthem for him?

Shoulda taken a knee.

pond scum wrote:

I know about a third of the lyrics.

It's only 80 words. They even rhyme, for Chrissakes. How can you not know the words?

I'm a plant biologist, but I can find work related to horticulture or landscaping. However, if I move to the West I'll be able to work on crop science.

I was at Home Depot to fix my parent's lawn and garden. Landscaping can increase the value of your home by 5-10%, and my special interests are in plant pathology.

Anyways, I hated the feeling of being put on the spot. But then I realized that life will be like that especially past college. You can anger people just by wearing something, and then you have to justify it to them about why you're wearing stuff?

This was a scenario in the fight or flight instinct, and I chose to be silent and scared. It's how it is.

Do you know the words for the full anthem?

And if put on the spot, can you reach the vocal range? Because that's what scared me initially.

I was gonna start singing the first few lines but then I realized that my vocal range is about 1 to 1.5 octaves. I don't sing, and I don't talk loud unless I'm drunk. So then I hesitated, and then I realized why do I have sing for some grumpy guy?

At 6-2 275 pounds and that been lifting since I was 15 look, I will wear whatever I want anywhere I want at any time I want.

I like the look of the American flag and I wore them almost every day for two months straight when I got this pair two years ago.

"Only if you'll join me in a duet, sir"

Would have shut him up QUICK.

You're going to have a tough time in life if every time someone tells you to do something ridiculous you comply.

Normal people would have ignored the fool and never thought about it again.

Your first mistake was going into a home depot. Should have went to Menards or Lowes.

u one of them Monsanto poisoning types

Thank you, Malmo.

I tend to listen to people and give them the benefit of the doubt.

A situation like this hasn't happened since two years ago when I was attending a summer class for a molecular biology lab.

Since it was a summer class, I had lots of time to study. But two of my classmates who were also in the same lab, and this other attractive chick - all three of them slacked in the lab part of the class. In the lectures, we were fine. None of them bothered me. But for the lab portion? They all kept asking me for notes and help with the procedures.

It wasn't until the final for the lab portion was coming up and they kept sending me texts to help them out with using a program for reading gene expressions. They wanted me to explain to them everything about what we learned in lab and how to graph and explain the results and conclusions and discussions.

I kept ignoring them because I already helped them out during the entire lab. My quiz grades suffered because I was too busy helping them with the lab manual instead of me studying for the quizzes.

And then they gave me the stinky eye and gave me mean looks. But why? Do I owe them something? Why should I spend my time on helping them study when I need to study for my ownself? We were all paying tuition for summer classes.

Which makes me think.. this whole situation with Home Depot was a power trip for the old guy. I could probably report him for discrimination and intimidation, but then he taught me that people will be hostile for reasons you'll never know.

GMO's are not the problem. The problem is applying pesticides or herbicides on GMO crops and not protecting the lesser well-known weeds or plants that influence the neighboring insects or animals.

Even if plants did uptake some pesticides or herbicides, they have transporting mechanisms in their

roots that direct contaminants into a vacuole, and then they shed it off either by abscising the leaf, or failing completely to grow which indicates that it isn't tolerant enough to grow in those conditions and therefore they wouldn't be sold for consumption.

Plants break compounds down in order to uptake it in their roots. If they don't break it down, then it won't get absorbed into the vascular system in the first place.

You think just spraying something on a crop's leaves means it'll absorb it. It only works for plant hormones - not fertilizer.

Wearing the US flag is very much against the flag code. You're worse than the NFL kneelers.

pond scum wrote:

GMO's are not the problem. The problem is applying pesticides or herbicides on GMO crops and not protecting the lesser well-known weeds or plants that influence the neighboring insects or animals.

Even if plants did uptake some pesticides or herbicides, they have transporting mechanisms in their

roots that direct contaminants into a vacuole, and then they shed it off either by abscising the leaf, or failing completely to grow which indicates that it isn't tolerant enough to grow in those conditions and therefore they wouldn't be sold for consumption.

Plants break compounds down in order to uptake it in their roots. If they don't break it down, then it won't get absorbed into the vascular system in the first place.

You think just spraying something on a crop's leaves means it'll absorb it. It only works for plant hormones - not fertilizer.

Sorry I was trolling. I am about as pro-biotech as you can find.

Onetime I argued with one of the brojos about GMO labeling laws even.

betgote wrote:

Wearing the US flag is very much against the flag code. You're worse than the NFL kneelers.

"Unless an article of clothing is made from an actual United States flag, there is NO breach of flag etiquette whatsoever. People are simply expressing their patriotism and love of country by wearing an article of clothing that happens to be red, white, and blue with stars and stripes. There is nothing illegal about the wearing or use of these items."

It's about etiquette, which means anyone is allowed to wear the flag. However, becoming hostile towards someone wearing it? In this case, an employee harasses a customer. (You're not supposed to bring your own political views when you're working). That is breaking the law as it relates to customer harassment. If he was the only clerk at Home Depot, I would not have bought anything there today.

But I understand that some people are nationalistic and proud of their country. But I never believed I would have to defend my patriotic sentiments. This is a whole pissing contest.