I am currently in North Carolina. Yesterday I delivered a very heavy armored truck (I grossed over 110,000 lbs) to Camp Lejuene and am now waiting for them to find me a load out of here.

I walked inside the truck stop for a bit of late breakfast a little while ago. The food was ok. After eating I packed my pipe with tobacco. Due to the fascist smoking ban I didn't light up, intending to do so once I stepped outside. I walked up to the register with my pipe stuck in my kisser as I needed my hands free to handle paying the check.

The young lady at the register looked at me and said "That thing stinks, I can smell it from here". As I said, it wasn't even lit. I asked her "Are you getting paid to ring up the check or insult the customers?"

She was obviously oblivious to the rudeness of her unsolicited remark until I asked that question, and her face blushed with embarrassment as there were other people watching. She tried to apologize for her rude remark but I told her that in the future the best thing she could do was keep her opinions to herself and take care of the customers in a more professional manner.

I just don't understand where some of these young people get off spouting off to people, especially a customer whom they are supposed to be serving. Do they really think anyone and everyone actually cares about their silly little opinions? I know I certainly do not. They can save that crap for their Facebook page where someone may actually care.

I think that perhaps High Schools should be teaching a class or two in professionalism to prepare these young people for the workplace, because most of them have no clue what the word means.