A trip to Starbucks should not bring my son to tears. But the two college aged young women working yesterday loudly conversed about how terrible 8 to 12 year old boys are. My son is eleven. We were the only two customers in the front room with these insensitive awful workers. Their rant went on for about ten minutes before I finallly realized the depth of their dislike for little boys and saw tears welding up in my son's eyes.
When comforted these employees justified their words as a persoanl conversation (they were loud and working the front end), not directed at my son (okay, talk trash about black people or women in front of black people or women and tell them it's not directed at them) and really about one of their friend's son (well that makes it so much better for my son)
I am beside myself. How could they both believe it's fine to publicly criticize all prepubescent boys? Do neither of them have any common sense? Mean spirted rants about children have no place in a public coffee house. These insensitive bigots should be fired.