[merylsilverburg]

If this thread gets locked or deleted, I have no problem. I'm just so angry right now and just need to vent off from what happened today at work.

I work as a cashier/waitress at my family Chinese restaurant and you know how at some places there's a jar where the customers can dump extra change or pennies in? Well, ever since 3 years ago I came up with that idea and labeled a jar "PENNIES". It's been there all this time and completely fine with the customers; no complaints whatsoever.
Today, however, this annoying Asian family of 3 came in (dad, mother, and daughter) and did the most unbelievable thing. They ate their meal and then the daughter came up to the counter and said to my mom, "Did you know you spelled "Pennies" wrong?" and pointed to the jar. She then told my mom that what I spelled is actually "PenIs" instead of "Pennies"!! And then she says to my mom, "You really shouldn't put bad words like that out in the world" and walked back to her table. Can you guys believe that?!?! This woman actually thought I spelled "Pennies" wrong!! She's this stupid college girl who can't even speak or read English that well and she's criticizing me for not being able to spell when I was born and raised in the US and English is my first language! And get this: her parents are both college profesors in the town where I live! WTF is that about?! And what made this situation annoying was that during their meal, they kept staring at me and making little smirks and the two parents had that "I'm so proud of my daughter" look on their face. This is how Asians are and it makes me furious! And to make it worse, my mom actually told me that I should be careful what I write next time!
And for those who are going to say to me that I'm being cruel to the family...I actually am not. If they can't speak or read English that well, what makes them think they can say something like this about me when English is my first language? And also, Asians aren't the only people who come into the restaurant. There's Americans, Europeans...if I really did spell "Pennies" incorrectly, don't you think they would've pointed it out to me....3 years ago?!

It's these stupid annoying things that I encounter from Asians which makes me dislike a large majority of them. And this isn't even the worst of it, but I just cannot believe this situation even happened.