That cashier blamed my phone for her tablet glitch, I about lost it

That cashier blamed my phone for her tablet glitch, I about lost it. Stopped at a hardware store in Akron last Tuesday to grab some brake pads for a customer's Civic. I get to the register and this cashier, maybe 19 years old, starts ringing me up and her tablet freezes mid-swipe. She looks right at my phone sitting in my cup holder and goes, 'Your Bluetooth is probably interfering with our system.' Ma'am, my phone is a 4 year old Android with Bluetooth off and it's in my car, twenty feet away. I told her that and she doubled down, said it happens all the time. Turns out their whole POS system needed a reboot, the manager came over and did that, took two minutes. So is it the tech's fault for glitching or the user's fault for not knowing their own setup? I'm still annoyed that she tried to pin it on my junk phone like it's some kind of signal vampire. Anyone else had a clerk blame your gear for their store's broken software?

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grantadams12d ago

Take a breath, man. A teenager at a hardware store said something dumb about your phone, and it took two minutes to fix. You're still worked up over a minor inconvenience that had zero impact on your day besides a slight delay. Honestly, sounds like you got your brake pads and a story to tell, so maybe just let this one go.