I have a friend who had a strange thing happen to her. How would you have handled this?
My friend works in a Mcdonald's that is in a Wal-mart. An 8 year old girl walks into the Mcdonald's from the store and asks for a water cup. Susan, who is in the lobby, gives her a water and follows the child to the drink fountain where she fills the cup with soda right in front of her. Susan tells her she can't have the soda because she didn't pay for it. She can only have water because that's what she asked for. So the child pours out the soda and gets water and leaves. Five minutes later the child's grandmother comes to her and is very angry that she corrected her grand daughter herself and didn't come to her. She told her that she should have let her grand daughter have the soda then told her but she, the grand mother was in the store and really wasn't planning on going to the Mcdonald's only until her grand daughter came to her and told her that a white woman told her that, they were black, she couldn't have a soda.
Susan said she was sorry that she didn't tell her but that she wasn't around when the girl got the soda and didn't pay for it but she could not let her get a soda without paying for it and leave the restaurant with it. She wasn't doing this because she was black but because she hadn't paid for what she took. She would have done the same thing if the child was white.
Some of the customers in the restaurant actually thought Susan should have let the child have the soda. I don't think she should have without making her or the grandmother pay for it. I don't think this is racial I think this is just you have to do what is right. I think that Susan couldn't help that the grandmother didn't teach her grand daughter right from wrong but she would have gotten in trouble if she had let her away with stealing soda.
What would you have done? Susan is not a prejudice person.