The Italians, Polish, and Portuguese out here were playing no games and taking no shorts with customers back in the day.
Helped that those groups used to dominate the police brass. Italians had the cheat code of people thinking they were connected.
Funniest times were watching those groups argue. Store owner and white customer (or delivery man) from different ethnic group. Italians and Port. were quick to raise their voices and throw hands.
Coach Krysewski's people used to get it in, too.
Breh I grew up in a yuppieville neighborhood. Bunch of upper class white folks. In high school I worked at a local small grocery store ran by a polish family whose family passed the store down to their kids and nephews. So the parents who owned the store owned it when the community was middle to upper middle class. The neighborhood had changed 15 to 20 years prior where the well to do folks moved in and pushed many of the middle class folks out.
Well anyway this polish family hated and I mean hated the yuppies. So any time they came in the store being disrespectful the one polish dude (oldest son and oldest cousin) who basically owned 60% of the store would go cursing out the yuppies and even throwing them out the store.
True story. It was a big time lawyer in the neighborhood who would come to the store and always be nasty to the cashiers who were puerto rican and mexican women. One day they tell the older polish dude and he says next time he comes in go to the office and get me. I will watch what he does and if he says some smart shyt I will get in his ass.
Anyway one day the lawyer comes in. The yuppie gets in the line and just starts talking nasty to one of the female puerto rican girls. One of the mexican girls had already told the polish owner that the lawyer was there shopping.
Well as the yuppie lawyer goes off on the puerto rican girl. Out jumps the polish owner from behind a shelf and says I heard what you said you SOB. Say you sorry to my cashier you dumb mothafukka.
Basically he berates this yuppie for like 4 minutes calling him all types of names saying he is gonna kicks his ass. And telling him to get out, don't ever disrespect his employees and to never come back again.
Anyway the polish dude did not play. He basically had a policy if any of them yuppies came in their being disrespectful to us to let him know and he would take care of the shyt immediately.