No kidding and memorial tattoos are the most heartfelt and a million miles from a trashy choice in ink

Agreed. I'm an older guy and the tattoo craze is something that came well after I grew up. So tattoos do sometimes seem weird and trashy to me. But I feel completely differently about memorial tattoos.

I can relate to being judged based on my ink. My personal favorite: you must've gotten those tattoos when you were drunk. Wrong, asshole. Any self respecting tattoo artist only inks sober people. I choose to commemorate monumental personal moments with tattoos, doesn't make me any less of a person than you. You don't have to agree/understand, but don't you dare judge.

I love this.

It depends #39, OP never said what they were memorializing. It could have been like the extremely offensive tattoo I saw on a woman's personal bits while I was delivering her baby. I never ask, but she told me it was to memorialize the first time she had anal sex. I could not care what was tattooed on a person, but for an extreme example, what if the tattoo was a memorial for when they joined some supremacist group, and the person who owned the shop had friends/family killed or hurt by people belonging to that group? I doubt that was the case, but you never know.

It doesn't matter how extreme it is. Business is business and you MUST act professional. It could be the trashiest tattoo ever, but you would still need to serve them like any other customer. In OP's case, he didn't deserve this.

Yes! Exactly what I was thinking. Everyone needs to take a page from Pretty Women every now and then. It makes me so happy each time I see that scene lol.

I'm often really surprised by some American FMLs, it's like there is few laws to protect normal people from extremely stupid douchebags... I mean, isn't refusing to serve a customer just... totally illegal?( In France it is strictly forbidden to refuse to serve someone in a shop without a very very good reason...)

it would probably be more money and time consuming for OP to do that. it would be easier to never walk in there, buy a ring at a better place, and tell everyone they know about the asshole that runs the first shop.

I'm just curious. What exactly would be the grounds for the lawsuit?

Captain RR----i wanted to say that you must be american but it turns out your a fellow canadian. If everyone made a lawsuit against anyone that was ever mean to them all the kids in middle school who are being bullied would be busy with their court times. Sometimes its way better to take the high road and not return to the store than act like a child and have the same ignorance in return.

Was this when Oprah was already super famous I would assume? Stupid clerk, probably amazing Oprah response