You made me smile, which isn’t easy to do. So, I appreciated that. Your piece did make me think of Mexico though.

I lived there for 8 years and if this had happened in Mexico it really would have been shocking if the store hadn’t served her first. I have stood in lines at stores in Mexico and watched as the obviously weathly walked right up to the counter to get served.

Not to the front of the line. Not, "finish what you’re doing and take me next". Right to the counter, expecting immediate service. Not even acknowledging the person in the middle of a transaction, who they have pushed aside.

Know what, they get their way. As an American, I was outraged the first time I saw this. My local friend told me not to make a scene.

"They’re rich" he said. "If you piss them off it will just be trouble for everyone." "Leave it alone, they will be gone in a few minutes."

He was right, they were in and out quickly. Which you can do, when you can cut to the front of every line, everywhere.

After I was clued into what I was seeing, I saw it everywhere. We are raging egalitarians compared to most of the world. In most of the world the wealthy pretty people are treated with far greater deference than in the US.

Perhaps her problem was that she couldn’t remember what country she was in.