Crime and Punishment

I work in the customer service industry and have for the last five years. I generally do not despise my position behind the counter helping people to pay for their various goods. Many times however my day is soured by rudeness and lack of decency. It is for this reason that I would like to offer some new propositions for a punishment system for rudeness that this world needs badly. I will present a situation that I have encountered and provide an example of the system of punishments for this.

My first instance of note comes from my current job. I work at a convenience store/gas station. This is the most frequent situation that Irks just about everyone who works in my position. A guest will approach the counter swiftly, toss a bill onto the counter, mumble a pump number and sprint for the door. Often times these people cut through a line just to do this. I’m not sure if this sort of behavior is just the case with the purchase of gasoline or if people do it other places. I can’t imagine paying my rent by tossing a handful of cash in the face of my landlord and saying my apartment number as I leave her office. I wonder if these same people toss their insurance card at a doctor and say, “gastric bypass.” This is not socially acceptable behavior and ought to be punished. Here’s how J. I don’t think that there should be a fine of any kind for these people. I would like a more creative solution. I think that we should be allowed to tag these people in the way that scientists tag animals that they are studying. Give them a nice orange tag on their ear or something. This tag should signify to everyone else that this man or woman is in a hurry. They’ve got places to be and don’t have time for trivial things like ensuring that they’ve properly paid for seventy five dollars worth of gas.  So from that point on these people should be prioritized. We will put these people first in all lines and put them on the top of all the lists. Up to this point this doesn’t really seem like a punishment, here’s the catch. Everyone that they pass in line should have the opportunity to punch them right in the face. This face punch would be totally legal and permissible by the law. The passed people would not be required to do any punching, but they would have the legal right to. This will insure that these people will learn what is really worth treating other people with a complete lack of respect.

Now, I have been in a hurry before, but I can’t imagine a situation where in I could act that rude to complete strangers. I have, in my time in the industry, learned to brush off people like this for the most part. I am however still wishing for there to be some kind of universal justice system for people who completely lack courtesy and respect for people whom they do not know.