Shit Talkers

I used to work for a major bank and while doing my stint there I came across a ton of assholes. I was taking a deposit for a lady and her daughter and I heard them speaking a Middle Eastern language. At first I wasn’t paying attention but when I realized they were speaking Farsi, I was all ears.

I speak Farsi.

They were talking about how much of a loser I was, how this job as a teller was the only thing I had in my life, that I probably didn’t have a girlfriend and didn’t attend school. Throughout this conversation I spoke only English to her and every time she responded to my requests she would smile and then say something nasty about me in Farsi.

At the end of the conversation, I switched up the language to Farsi and said, “Just because I work at a Bank doesn’t give you the right to say things about me behind my back. I’m in grad school to become a Psycho Therapist and this job is for spending money. This isn’t how Persian people behave and you should be ashamed. Is there anything else I can help you with?”

Her daughter snap left the building and her mother was beat red, embarrassed, apologized profusely, and left. I never saw either of them again.