A Rude Cust0mer Screamed at a Y0ung Employee With Down Syndrome, but She Soon Regretted Asking f0r the Manager

Then silence.

Then a woman’s voice.

“Oh my God. Are you kidding me? Are you KIDDING me?”

My daughter Zoe and I were standing in the cereal aisle at Lakeview Foods on a Saturday afternoon in March. I was holding a box of Cheerios. She was holding a box of Lucky Charms and making her best argument for why marshmallows were a vegetable.

We both froze.

“Mom,” Zoe whispered. “Something broke.”

“I know, baby.”

The woman’s voice got louder.