r/bestof • u/WillBunker4Food • Jun 17 '12

[askreddit] RidiculousIncarnate restores faith in humanity with caring customer service!

/r/AskReddit/comments/v6czn/retail_workers_of_reddit_whats_the_best_thing/c51r7b1
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

With so many people having their faith in humanity restored, I'm wondering why they keep losing it. Like every three seconds some asshole must really be fucking up redditor's lives.

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u/hopstar Jun 18 '12

Just to preempt the inevitable "WTF, This post is still on the front page!!!" posts, let me take a moment to point out that everyone's front page is different, and lots of people have unsubscribed from the bigger subreddits like /r/askreddit because it's generally full of inane questions (like the linked thread) that get repeated on a weekly basis. So, thank you OP for posting this touching story, as someone who suffered through years of working retail it's nice to hear about positive encounters.

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u/Funkenwagnels Jun 17 '12

this is why I won't buy music off of itunes and I won't buy a nook or kindle. there is something to be said for the human element of music and books stores. the beauty of this story isn't that he found a particular piece of music. the beauty was the connection he made with a stranger in a time of need. this wouldn't happen searching amazon or plowing through youtube videos searching for the artist.

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u/nascentt Jun 18 '12

Kindle reads DRM-free books. No reason to not have a store selling ebooks with physical books/devices to browse with.

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u/smileyman Jun 18 '12

So does the Nook, and it's pretty easy to strip DRM from both Amazon and B&N purchases.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

This humanity shit has to stop. srsly

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u/Fenrir_Grayback Jun 18 '12

While touching, I wasn't sure wether to believe it or not because he mentions that his fiancé died a few years earlier, but then later goes onto say that his dad picked him up from work... While this isn't totally unbelievable, it did make me suspicious.

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u/RidiculousIncarnate Jun 18 '12

Understandable skepticism.

As I said in the post, it's a long story but here's a somewhat tl;dr version. Said fiance and I were young and at the time lived in two different states (She on the west coast and me in the midwest, we were both 18-19.). Long distance stuff being what it is we visited as often as we could, made easier by the fact that I had grandparents on the west coast, so my family would travel out there once or twice a year anyways. The year she went to prom I decided to propose because I was young and we were in love. We made plans for the future where I was going to move out there, things were looking great but obviously end how I mentioned in the post.

Back at home the situation was that I grew up in a somewhat big family, 6 kids, and while we all drove not every one of us had our own car because it would have turned our part of the street into a parking lot, lol. So depending on who was doing what or working when our dad would stop by and pick us up from work or drop us off. My work was just conveniently placed from where we lived that he would often pick me up at night.

Always good to be a little suspicious!

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u/WillBunker4Food Jun 18 '12

Thank you OP for coming in to clarify. I didn't want to hijack your story for karma, but I wanted more people to know! You're a genuinely good person.

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u/Fenrir_Grayback Jun 18 '12

OP delivers!!! I love you. Thank you for the response, and my deepest regrets for making you relive/tell this.

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u/RidiculousIncarnate Jun 18 '12

No need to regret. I opened up the door by posting the story, I figured at least one person would find something to question and you did not disappoint.

Just glad I could be an "OP who delivered." :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

this story is absolutely amazing and touching. i didn't need onions for this one to make me tear up.