[Serious] Black waiters of Reddit, What is the most racist experience from customers you face during your job?

Interestingly, it's not a funny story at all. The biggest hurdle was getting the black women in the store to like me. Unlike the men I couldn't slowly win them over laughter, jokes and helping them out.

So one night we're finishing up for the night and drivers are waiting for the manager to close us out. As I mentioned, I was allowed to touch the register so could close people out for the night, so hopped over when I saw the manager was getting too busy doing other things.

When it's end of the night everyone is crazy busy cleaning, organizing, making final orders and arguing over petty shitty (welcome to the wonderful word of food service).

Anyway, I hear the front door open and then a man's voice behind me say something and so I put up a finger to indicate that I would need a moment. He said something against and I told him to wait a moment please. Then I feel a hand grip my shoulder and spin me around ... and saw that I had a pistol about 2 inches from my face. This big mother fucker tell me to get on the ground and open the register without looking at him.

I pop the register and, like almost everyone else, get on the ground. Only as I sit there I see one of the female drivers is still standing and is frozen in place looking this guy clear in the face. He did not like this and started yelling at her putting the gun in her face. I see that she is too freaked out to act, so I stood up. The moment he retraced the gun on me, I thought I was done for. However, I slowly grabbed her shoulders and pushed her down. Once she was down I pointed at the register full of cash then laid on top of her (which, with me at 6'4 and in my heavy-stage of life, couldn't have been nice). The guy ended up taking the money and left. (I also got everyone laughing again with Indianapolis Police came and I called them idiots for finger printing the money)

So the next day it was almost as if a light switch flipped. All the female staff were really friendly and we always got along. I guess shared experiences can help get people to see you as an equal. :)

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