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[SloopJohnB]

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@Elodie2wrote:

I remember as a kid going to the store with my mom and often seeing women with rollers in their hair and a cigarette dangling from their lips. Things evolve.

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@Elodie2Reading your post brings to mind the cartoon character Maxine that Hallmark makes a line of greeting cards with. LOL. 🚬👄

[Stelladorable]

It could have been Pajama Day at school and the woman is a teacher or volunteer. Or....

The woman and children were taken by a spaceship and dropped back earthside in a grocery store. They could have been temporarily stunned or had amnesia....or.....

J k, won't torture you further!!!!!!!!

[Trailrun23]

Another reason I hate going to Walmart. Almost everyone in there is wearing pajamas and house slippers....men or women. I also see a lot of air travelers wearing pjs and slippers when flying. If you can afford an airline ticket, you can afford street clothes and a pair of shoes. We were bogged down at the Atlanta airport due to a flight that had been cancelled due to weather ....DH and I were nicely dressed..not dressed up, but we had on slacks and sweaters everyone else in the line was in pj bottoms with tank tops and flip flops, etc. the agent pulled us from the middle of the line up to the counter and got us on the next and last plane out. Can't help but think how we were dressed made a difference. And if you are going to wear flip flops, wash your feet first!

[occasionalrain]

Whether conscious, fair or not, people who are well dressed get better treatment. The same is true for those who are polite. Most everyone has the choice on how they present themselves. Unkempt and rude won't have people doing more than required to help them, please them, fix their issue...

[Mersha]

It is hard to believe an airline agent would pull a couple from the middle of the line, take them to the counter, and put them on the next flight all because how they were dressed.

The others in line watching would not be happy and voice their displeasure.

This also could be viewed as a discrimination issue on how people were dressed or not dressed.

I just can't imagine why an airline agent would put him/herself in that position.

[CatsyCline]

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@Elodie2wrote:

I remember as a kid going to the store with my mom and often seeing women with rollers in their hair and a cigarette dangling from their lips. Things evolve.

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@Elodie2i don't recall the cigarettes but the rollers, yes. Moms did this but DH said when he was in Jr High and HS in the 60s his teen sister, aunts, cousins and their friends wore their hair in rollers to go shopping. Even if they didn't need to wash and set their hair, They would do it because they wanted people to think they had a big date that nite.

[Sage04]

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@Mershawrote:

It is hard to believe an airline agent would pull a couple from the middle of the line, take them to the counter, and put them on the next flight all because how they were dressed.

The others in line watching would not be happy and voice their displeasure.

This also could be viewed as a discrimination issue on how people were dressed or not dressed.

I just can't imagine why an airline agent would put him/herself in that position.

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I'm right there with you @Mersha . A few words would have been said and more than a few words.

[BreKay]

Obviously Safeway didn't have a problem with how this Mom & her kids were dressed. A lot of subtle (and not so subtle) condescending remarks here.

[Cakers3]

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@Sage04wrote:

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@Mershawrote:

It is hard to believe an airline agent would pull a couple from the middle of the line, take them to the counter, and put them on the next flight all because how they were dressed.

The others in line watching would not be happy and voice their displeasure.

This also could be viewed as a discrimination issue on how people were dressed or not dressed.

I just can't imagine why an airline agent would put him/herself in that position.

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I'm right there with you @Mersha . A few words would have been said and more than a few words.

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@Sage04@MershaAlso agree. I also am skeptical that everyone else had on pjs, tank tops, and flip flops. Even if they did, that does not excuse the next persons in line to lose out on the last flight out.

[Cakers3]

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@Calcgirlwrote:

I went to Safeway today and I saw a lady with two kids, all of them dressed in pajamas. She also had big fuzzy slippers and a old robe on. By the looks of her hair and the kids hair, it was apparent they just got out of bed although it was later in the afternoon. Not sure if they were sick or what, but I stayed a distance away from them just in case. This is a nice area, so I doubt she was dressed this way because she could not afford clothes.

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@CalcgirlYour last sentence is the reason why some are looking at your post as judgemental.