I recently posted a picture of a restaurant receipt where a veteran had written that his service was the tip. A friend who is a recovering veteran says the receipt is probably real because “while some in the military are decent people, others are real jerks who think all civilians (seen as lazy, out of shape, greedy, self-centered, and ungrateful) owe them something, and whatever they do in the military can be described as ‘fighting for your freedom.'”
Now I see that the owner of a restaurant recently wrote in to the Military Times about arrogant military family members:
As small business entrepreneurs, we take a lot of pride in providing 55 jobs while making pay roll every week, all self-financed as saved and scrimped for investment capital. As owners, we choose to offer a 10% discount to first responders and active duty/reserve military and guardsmen. Which is where I get to my rub. Recently I had a military spouse grow irate with my cashier because we didn’t offer a discount to military family members. Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened. I guess I could stop offering any discount at all to the military, but would rather not. In this particular case, my cashier was on the receiving end of a very long tirade about how obviously unappreciative ownership must be of the sacrifices of the military family, she ended by stating “it would be in the owner’s best interest” to offer discounts to families as well. I wish I was there to find out exactly what she meant beyond her vague threat.
Hey veterans: we owe you nothing and we don’t thank you for your service. Not when what you do is anything and everything but defending our freedoms.
3:29 pm on March 14, 2015
