Do you enjoy "giving people a hard time"?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (220303)
Walnut Creek, California
March 11, 2021 12:47pm CST
Today, at my gas station, I put in a few gallons (I think the price is up to $3.55 there now) and saw that the manager was working the counter. She and I have known each other for years, and enjoy chatting, and also giving each other a hard time.
Today, as I was paying for my cigs, we discussed having had our Covid shots, and how we will keep wearing our masks in public, etc. As I was leaving, she said, " ...so you'll have to keep covering up that ugly face in here!"
A new worker (female, about 25) who was stocking the refrigerated section gasped. She said "Oh my gosh! I hope you come back!" I laughed and said "I just met her, and see how she treats me?" Everyone in the store was laughing, and I think they enjoyed our banter.
Do you banter with store clerk, etc. that you've known for awhile? How long do you have to know someone before you do that kind of thing?
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@DaddyEvil (137638)
• United States
11 Mar 21
I might do things like that, too... I tend to have a difficult time not teasing people. 
And yes, I will tease people I just meet, too.
And yes, I will tease people I just meet, too.7 people like this
@FourWalls (69061)
• United States
11 Mar 21
You’re the nicest person I’ve met!!!
(Not teasing you, teasing Horsey.)
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@DaddyEvil (137638)
• United States
11 Mar 21
@TheHorse If you think back, I'm positive I upset you when I first met you by teasing you... If I don't start teasing right away, it's because that person has done/said something that upsets me/made me uncomfortable around them.
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@LindaOHio (181821)
• United States
12 Mar 21
My husband does that more than I do. I will sometimes kid a stranger a little bit if I'm in the mood.
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@TheHorse (220303)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Mar 21
I'm friendly to strangers. But I don't kid people unless I have a sense they can handle it. For example, if I have my Michigan State baseball cap on, and someone else in a queue has a Michigan hat on, I might say, "Hey, we're mortal enemies!" If he laughs and says, "Oh, man! I can't talk to you!", then we can have have a friendly conversation about our respective ties to Michigan.
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@TheHorse (220303)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Mar 21
@LindaOHio But sometimes I'm just friendly and quiet.
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@popciclecold (39521)
• United States
11 Mar 21
That's good to be able to talk with people you have known for awhile. I always had the knack of hanging names on people, we would joke. The other workers would say Mrs. Phyllis has, a name for everyone.
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@vandana7 (100606)
• India
12 Mar 21
@TheHorse I think the first time I realized you were open to have some fun was on Russ Teed's post. Prior to that I thought you were a saintly priest. Then we hijacked somebody's post....mommaj, DE, you and I, and a few others. You participated for a short while, and then went back into shell. A few months later, I said you sulk. That is when you reacted...Evil Grin.
@FourWalls (69061)
• United States
11 Mar 21
Not as much as you enjoy picking on poor innocent Vanny!! 
Oh, yes. There’s a waiter in Chuy’s who always says “I didn’t want to wait on you anyway” if I don’t sit in his section.
Oh, yes. There’s a waiter in Chuy’s who always says “I didn’t want to wait on you anyway” if I don’t sit in his section. 2 people like this
@TheHorse (220303)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Mar 21
Heh. My friend Ko (she runs my Thai place) said (after I'd known her for about ten years and used various phony accents to order my food) said to me, in front of an Asian couple, "I'm sorry we only serve Asians." They both gasped, and then I heard laughter and a bunch of fast speaking in what I think was Mandarin. No doubt Ko was telling them about how I an obnoxious regular.
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@moffittjc (121731)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Mar 21
I banter with coworkers, but not really with people I don't know. Sometimes I'm flirtatious with females, and sometimes for fun I'll reminisce with people I don't know. But that's about the extent of it.
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@teresatrotter (4073)
• Jacksonville, Florida
11 Mar 21
If I notice that they are a little brazen in speech... I don't wait. I do it right away! It actually shocks some of them; because they wonder who is this stranger throwing me under the bus??? LOL
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@mnglsp (3615)
• Philippines
12 Mar 21
Last 2017, there are two store clerks at 7-eleven near us. I and my friends became regular in that branch that's why we became to those clerks. There was a time that other customers thought we are arguing and those clerks were being harsh on us but they are shocked when they heard us laugh after arguing hahaha.
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@much2say (56114)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Mar 21
Oh yes - I live for that 
. There was a deli counter at the grocery store where many of us would frequent on our breaks from work . . . there was a guy there who we just couldn't stand, but it was so much fun to banter with him. He happened to be a "Thespian" . . . so it got interesting. I'm ready for such a banter anytime 
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. There was a deli counter at the grocery store where many of us would frequent on our breaks from work . . . there was a guy there who we just couldn't stand, but it was so much fun to banter with him. He happened to be a "Thespian" . . . so it got interesting. I'm ready for such a banter anytime .1 person likes this
@wolfgirl569 (108244)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Mar 21
I have met a couple of people that you knew right away you could do that and it would be in fun.
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@lovebuglena (44726)
• Staten Island, New York
12 Mar 21
I don't think I've ever done something like this. At least not in person. Through writing maybe.
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@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
12 Mar 21
I have made such rapport with few people around and we share such incidents. We don't need to know the person too long or too well to have such light moments. With some it happens naturally while with others you might know them for ages but don't develop that kind of ease and comfort.
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@sharonelton (29344)
• Lichfield, England
12 Mar 21
That is very funny! No, I don't do that!
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