There will always be disrespectful people, people may yell at you, flip you, ignore you..... so what do you propose to do about that? Give them a lecture? Tell thedisprespectful cashier at the checkout counter that you expect them to respect your boundaries? Good luck with that.
Since you brought it up, and since this JUST happened to me on Tuesday, I'll give you an example from my own life.
I took my S19 to his dermatologist appointment, and on our way back home, I needed to stop in Lowe's to buy a lockset for our front entry door. Ours is sticking, getting old, and I wanted to change the finish on it anyway.
Well, I"m an IDIOT when it comes to locks, and I find them horribly confusing. Left-hand doors, right-hand doors, different finishes, single-keyed deadbolts, double-keyed deadbolts, single-barrel, double-barrel . . . arrrggg!!! So I figured I'd ask the guy in that department at Lowe's for some help.
He was behind his little counter, waiting on another customer, and I went and stood patiently behind the other customer. The clerk, seeing me standing there, peers over his glasses and says kind of warily "Can I help you?" I said "Well, I'm confused and I have some questions, so I'll wait -- just take care of this other customer first, I'm not in a hurry."
"Well, it's gonna be awhile," he says, all negative-like, and not even making eye contact with me. "I've got three other orders to enter after this, so what is it you needed to know?"
I kind of stammered out my question, and he starts throwing all kinds of lingo at me, and to make a long story short, he was just plain RUDE, and so I finally said "Nevermind, I will go somewhere else, like to Home Depot." He was kind of taken aback, and he said "I didn't say I couldn't help you, but I'm kinda busy here!" and I said "No, that's not it, sir, you're treating me like an idiot, and ridiculing my questions (he was, too), and I don't appreciate it. I will go somewhere where they treat their customers better," and I turned with my son, to walk away and leave the store.
Realizing he'd been a jerk (or fearing maybe I'd go to the manager?) he said "Now come on!!!" or something like that, but I just kept going. A really nice guy at Home Depot didn't have the item either, but found a piece of paper for me and wrote down EXACTLY what I needed, so I could order it from their website, which I just did, today.
So no, Angel, I wouldn't accept, say, a cashier at a grocery store treating me rudely. I would calmly say "I don't appreciate you saying that -- I think you should apologize." I find that that usually does the trick, and if it doesn't, I'd probably go and talk to the manager if I didn't have an option for another store.
I learned this from my mom, who's GREAT at it, but it does take work. She'd be playing cards or dominos or something with my kids, and she'd warn them maybe once "Please don't do that, (my son's name) -- I don't like to play that way" or something similar, depending on the situation. And if her grandson did it again, she'd just calmly say "That's it -- we're done. I don't like how you're behaving right now. Maybe we'll play later when you're ready to play nicer," and she'd tell him to pack it all up.
She only had to do that like ONCE with each of my kids.
