@stavvers

Now I want a "this is no longer a robbery" shirt, but that would only end in tears because the world is not ready for it.

@stavvers A college classmate worked at a gas station in rural Tennessee. Somebody tried to hold it up when she was working solo. She told the robber that the time-release safe wouldn't let her do that, and there was like $30 in the cash register, but she'd be willing to split the safe's contents with him if he came back in half an hour.

So he did.

He was shocked, *shocked,* to learn that my classmate didn't actually open the safe in that time.

@stavvers An Austrian band made this into a song in the 80ies. See https://youtu.be/rXUlmP5MvnE

They even made a version in English: https://youtu.be/Sql2QtXIxIk

@stavvers

The power of the #AssertiveAttitude right here!

"People listen to you better and bother you less when you communicate with an assertive attitude of awareness, calm, respect, and confidence."

https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/assertive-advocacy/

#KidPower

@stavvers Suncorp Bank at Michelton (now my closest branch since they closed the one at Ashgrove) basically _require_ me to pass a note across the desk to withdraw cash as the withdraw forms are all kept behind the teller's desk.

Either that, or I recite it all verbally.