If you harassing my barrista, waiter, cashier you will get a helping of "go fuck yourself, you inhumane piece of shit" with your coffee, meal or purchase. For some reason people tolerate rudeness in many situations, but if someone (me) calls em out on it, the earth totters on its axis. You can see the eyes roll when someone abuses a waiter, but when I turn to the rude patron and point out that they are harassing someone who will soon touch the food they are about to eat, you can see the patrons become agitated and upset. When a person tries to order a 16oz cappuccino at the world famous coffee house two blocks form my residence and the barista politely tells them that they would be happy to make a foamy latte, but that they can't make a 16oz cappuccino (such a drink can not exist, it is a physical impossibility). And the customer gets irate, starts and argument causing delay for every other customer in line, and I tell the hillbilly coffee drinker to order a damn foamy latte or get the hell out of line, everyone but the barista looses their cool. I will admit that acting in opposition to such rudeness has got me free booze and coffee, but it's not why I do it. I just find it intolerable to say nothing. Consensus is that I was out of line when I told a person buying $21 dollar a pound cheese with food stamps that they were welcome, but I will continue to speak my mind, steeping out of my car to critique drivers in no uncertain terms why they are idiots while at the intersection (I always returning to my car before the light changes). Rudeness is spreading like a disease, tending bar I have realized that "HEY" has been substituted for "pardon me," sometimes it just becomes too much. Just so you know, if you yell "HEY" at me while tending bar, you will be the last person at my bar to be served.