so yes i work at a gas station, and today i almost had to break up a fight between a retired marine and a very angry old Arabic man.

this guy (the former marine) had been waiting in line to put fuel in his RV, all of a sudden the elderly middle eastern gentleman pulls directly in front of him cutting him off after he had been waiting for at least 15 minutes. needless to say the guy in the RV is a bit peeved. he gets out and yells to the middle eastern guy "hey you need to get back in line, i've been waiting for F*****g 15 minutes".

the other guy suddenly goes ballistic, shouting "you cant f*****g talk to me like that f***" you and on and on, only with an actually amusing accent (he sounded like the guy from 40 year old virgin). so the ex-marine walks up to me and says "kid hold my jacket for me" and starts off toward the middle eastern guy. i tell him that i cant allow him to fight this guy on our property or we will be liable (best excuse i could come up with atm) he finds that excuse funny enough he drops the issue and asks if i will just go ant talk to the middle eastern guy.

so.... i walk up to the middle eastern guy and as i am walking up to him i notice his hand on the handle of this crazy little Arabic knife he has tucked into his belt. so i promptly do an about face and walk away. this world is getting crazy!

My eyes started to hurt somewhere in the middle of reading that post.

sorry, hopefully that helps a bit.

Now if you used capitalization properly, you would be *golden*.

nah, cant help ya there

:saddowns:

I'd have called the cops once I saw the knife. Taken down the license plate number and a description of the car.

He's obviously a tribal sheik and needs his jambiya to show his status.

... But the guy The 40 Year Old Virgin was Indian.

Was he a Sikh? They carry religious knives.

Indian != Arabic

The best way to tell is by smell.

Damn you Americans are nuts.

That was fantastic and horrible at the same time.

Working at gas stations can be fun.

I once had to do diesel for this guy (since it wasn't a self-serivice thing, it was a gravity diesel tank with a special meter).

The guy looked JUST like a stereotypical serial killer. I was standing there filling his diesel tank and watching the gallons go up on the handle when he was like "Hey... *twitch* *shiffty eyes* Do you know where I can buy some shotgun shells?"

me "No... not anywhere here in town. Maybe 30 miles down the road."

him "Ugh. Okay... *shiffty eyes*"

The wierd thing is, he had big blue 55 gallon plastic drums in the back of his truck.


Anyway, you did the right thing by not messing with a knife wielding Arabian.

Pffft. You should have gone ninja on his ***.

Wuss.

Haha, you should have had the Marine run him over with his RV.

Duh.

that's when to pull out an australian accent and say "that's no knoife" pull out a bigger knife and say "this is a knoife"