Today, after months of saving, I went to buy the wedding ring I promised to buy my fiancée. Just seconds after I walked in, the owner asked me to leave, saying he doesn't serve "trash" like me, while pointing at the memorial tattoo on the back of my hand. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was out with my boyfriend, when he started browsing wedding rings. He found a ring, proposed to me right there in front of a crowd, and then was promptly denied a payment plan. We left without a ring. FML
Today, I went to a jewellery store to sell my wedding ring, after a long and painful divorce. The shop owner took one look at it and called the cops because I tried to sell him a diamond ring that had been stolen from him 3 years ago. My ex-husband left the country a week ago. FML
Today, an ex-boyfriend of mine came to the jewelry store I work at to pick out an engagement ring for his girlfriend. The same guy who just a few months earlier ended our 8-year relationship because I wanted marriage and he didn't. FML
Today, I went with my girlfriend to the mall. We were looking at jewellery in Zales and she came across the engagement rings. She looks at one and says, "Are you kidding me? That ring is hideous and it's the most expensive one here! Who the fuck would buy that?" Well, that would be me. FML
Today, I went to a jeweler's to buy a ring to propose to my girlfriend. When I was at the restaurant, in mid-proposal, with people watching, I realized I had left the ring in the store. FML
Today, I bought a fake "wedding ring" at Target to play a prank on my parents. They kicked me out, saying my "fiancé" can take care of me now. There is no fiancé, and I just lost my job. FML
Today, my girlfriend dumped me for the tattoo artist who gave us our matching "love" tattoos. FML
Today, I had to sell my wedding ring to help me pay for my divorce. FML
Today, I took a ring to be cleaned, and the jeweler offered to clean all my rings, so I gave them to him. When he gave them back, he said he'd polished all the scratches on the wedding band. The “scratches” were the remains of the original engraving on my dead father's wedding band. FML
Today, I was shopping for rings with my fiancée. We spent over two hours selecting the perfect ring and diamond to match. When filling out the paperwork I discovered I left my wallet at home. She had to pay the 20% down payment for the ring. FML
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ALegitOreo 11
What an ass
pl0xs3rver 45
You don't want to be buying a ring from an ass like that.
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Comments (128)
MzZombicidal 36
That's just awful... Judging someone by what's on their skin (unless it is TRULY offensive) is ******* ridiculous. OP, I hope you can find an even better ring from an even better sales rep.
jthmtwin 16
No kidding and memorial tattoos are the most heartfelt and a million miles from a trashy choice in ink
donnybrook 5
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.
ams484 5
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.
kayladayla 13
I love this.
LLSpanky 24
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.
cheeeksss 29
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.
jazzlejay 8
I'd buy a ring elsewhere then go back all Pretty Woman on their ass! "I was in here yesterday, you wouldn't wait on me. Big mistake. Big. Huge. I have to go shopping now." Lol
Brandi_Faith 34
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.
princessbloky 12
I'm sure we all know who the real trash is here, and I'm sure that your girlfriend knows too. But, you know, in the long run you'll have a pretty great story to tell your kids, and other people.
qdawg06 23
People are such judgemental asshole's. Sorry OP.
nitrog100 21
Call up your local newspaper and see if you can get a story. Hit that douche as hard as you can, right in the wallet.
micassures_fml 19
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...)
scottyboy417 19
That guy is a total ass clown. Some people just misjudge tattoos to mean something bad.
Kielnmsoftly 26
I know this May seem trivial but I want to know. Was it like a date and name or was there like a person's face or something symbolizing them? Just wondering so yeah.
CaptainRR 20
When this happens, stop, call your lawyer, and prepare to place a lawsuit on this @$$hole. Just say he had made you feel horrible and was judgmental. Etc etc etc. If he's going to be an ass, just be more of an ass
meli1195 31
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.
Zebediabolical 45
I'm just curious. What exactly would be the grounds for the lawsuit?
Cupcake040 17
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.
infinitemonkey 21
Go in and take a picture of it. Go to another jeweler and ask him to duplicate it for half the price or more karats...:
Vegetarian27 24
This reminds me of the retail assistant who told Oprah that she wouldn't be able to afford a bag in a shop, and who refused to pull it down off the high shelf for her.
lina21 12
Was this when Oprah was already super famous I would assume? Stupid clerk, probably amazing Oprah response