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Woman's Story Of Getting Called A 'F***ing Socialist' For Kind Shopping Cart Gesture Has TikTok Cackling
Aldi is a German multinational discount grocery chain, which, unlike most large grocery stores in the U.S., requires patrons to pay a quarter to use its grocery carts by dropping a quarter into a designated slot.
This was the starting point for the bonkers story.
"What just happened?" Ray said in the video, and she tried to continue the best she could without giving in to fits of laughter from the jaw-dropping interaction.
From her car parked at an Aldi location, Ray said:
"I'm at the Aldi, right? When I got my cart because you put your quarter in, there was already a quarter in there."
"I'm like OK, so when I go put my cart back, I'm either gonna leave it there or I'm just gonna give it to someone and tell them to keep the quarter."
When an older patron approached the cart carousel, Ray knew exactly what to do: help out a fellow shopper by giving away the spare coin.
Ray continued:
"So, this really sweet looking old lady comes up and I said, 'Hey do you need a cart?' And she's like, 'Well, yeah.'"
"And she goes to hand me a quarter and I said," said Ray, as she tried in vain to suppress her giggling fit.
When she managed to collect herself, she resumed.
"I said, 'No that's OK, keep your quarter and pay it forward."
That was when the old woman responded by telling our TikToker:
"Okay, you f'king socialist!"
Still reeling from the shock of what the cranky woman said to her, Ray started crying-laughing, with tears in her eyes, before going on.
The video ended with Ray saying:
"I was just trying to be nice. I'm a f'king socialist."
"That's fine, that's fine! I did not expect to be called out like that on a Wednesday. Oh man ... All right."
Here is the video.
Warning: NSFW language.
Newsflash!
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A quarter for your thoughts?
TikTokers continued weighing in over the kind gesture fail.
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And to think she was doing something nice for a total stranger.
Geez.
JoJo Siwa Sparks Backlash With New 'Gay Pop' Tattoo—And Her Fans Have Jokes
Siwa's audacious ambition to pioneer the queer music genre, which already exists, btw, came in April when she debuted her first official single as an adult artist, called "Karma," after years of being in the spotlight from her tweens on shows like Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition and various programs on Nickelodeon.
She went on to cite Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Miley Cyrus's "Can't Be Tamed" as examples of the genre and further described it as:
“That world of music, where it’s not necessarily pop–it’s not giving you Katy Perry ‘California Girls’ pop, it’s giving you Lady Gaga ‘Judas.'"
Siwa received backlash for her statements, with one commenter humbling her with a list of established artists in gay pop, such as Elton John, Wham!, and Queen.
When asked if she would walk back her previous comments on inventing the genre, she clarified:
"I am not the inventor of gay pop, for sure not. ... I might not be the president, but I might be the CEO, or the CMO."
But it seems the 21-year-old has permanently leaned into the title of CEO despite previously admitting she was not the progenitor of gay pop.
Here is Pink News's TikTok clip of Siwa getting inked with the identifying moniker.
The unveiling of her new tattoo got an icy reception.
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Some thought the internet should lighten up.
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Others said the backlash was all by design.
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Siwa is setting her sights on the future with a desire to compete in next year's Eurovision Song Contest to represent her heritage country of Poland.
The international competition launched the career of the original pioneers of gay pop, ABBA, after becoming the first Swedish group to win with their hit song "Waterloo" in 1974.
Soccer Star Trinity Rodman Opens Up About Fractured Relationship With Dad Dennis Rodman
Trinity Rodman has long been less that complimentary of her famous father. Something of a soccer prodigy, Trinity has always credited her mother Michelle Moyer, and her mother only, for leading her to success.
Moyer and Dennis Rodman divorced in 2012 when Trinity was about 10, and she told Call Her Daddy's Alex Cooper that the aftermath was somewhat brutal, especially since he was stingy with his NBA fortune.
Trinity Rodman said he rarely gave her and her mother any money, and when he did, he held it over their heads in multiple ways.
"My dad, he likes to be in control. So he would take us shopping, get us phones, do this, do that."
"'Oh, I'm going to take you and your brother shopping,' and me and my brother are like, 'We don't want to go shopping, we just want money to go get In-N-Out after school with our friends.'"
"So it was like, he wouldn't give us money to do that. He needed to have the control of bringing us shopping and swiping his own card."
"But if we asked, 'Hey, could we have $100 to go get food, to go to Claire's to get my ears pierced,' just little stuff like that? He was like, 'No. You're using me.'"
The situation was at times so dire she and her mother and brother lived in their car for a while. She also recalled being styled for her father's events, like his jersey retirement, and feeling awkward because her father was anything but a family man.
She went on:
"He loves the spotlight. He loves the cameras. He loves bringing his children on stage and being like, 'Oh, these are my kids.'"
Later in her life, Rodman showed up to one of her games out of nowhere in her first season with the Washington Spirit women's soccer team. Trinity recalled starting to cry on the field because she hadn't heard from him in months.
Though she scored the winning goal, she was furious with her father for throwing her off. But then they had a tearfully tender moment after the game, which she characterized as a "new beginning" between them. Then she didn't hear from him again for two years.
Now, she has a pretty sobering take on their relationship.
"He’s not a dad. Maybe by blood, but nothing else."
On Instagram, many people with difficult parental relationships related to her story.
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As for Trinity and her dad's relationship now, she's taken a pragmatic approach going forward.
She told Cooper:
"I answer the phone now for my conscience, to be like, he needed to hear my voice before anything else happens. That's why I answer the phone, not for me."
Sometimes that's all you can do.
Elton John Jokes About Why His 'S**t' Birth Name Was Actually 'Spot On'
After Colbert said John's birthname is "a lovely name," John disagreed, saying:
"It's a s**t name." ... Who the hell calls their— a little baby? A little baby? 'Reginald, oh Reginald.'"
He then discussed the origin of his birth name:
"I was named after my mum's brother because she wanted to call me Raymond, but my father disagreed so they had a huge argument — which wasn't unusual — and I became Reginald and I hated it."
Noting that there have been famous "Reggies" in the United States but that it's a far less popular name in England, he added:
It wasn't Reggie, it was Reginald. Like, who the hell? As soon as I could change it, I did."
Then Colbert pointed out something funny about the name "Reginald":
"Reginald's the male version of Regina, which means 'Queen."
An amused John replied:
"Thank you. They got it spot on. In 1947, they knew what they were doing."
You can watch their exchange in the video below.
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His fans couldn't get enough of that answer.
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John also confirmed to Colbert that "the juices have never dried up" and that "of course there will be new Elton John music," which delighted his fans immensely.
John later chose the name Elton Hercules John, recalling that he got the idea from two members of the 1960s British blues band Bluesology, which he performed with earlier in his career:
"The saxophone player was called Elton Dean. And I thought, 'Elton! There's not many Eltons in the world, that's pretty unusual."
John adopted his last name from the band’s vocalist, Long John Baldry, and chose Hercules as his middle name, inspired by the horse from the beloved British sitcom Steptoe and Son. This marked the second phase of his transformation. Reflecting on the change, John acknowledged that renaming himself ultimately began to shape who he was as a person.
He said:
"The sad thing about it was, by 1975, when I was Elton Hercules John, Reg had been lost, and I craved to find that little boy that I used to be. I had become 'Elton John: Superstar' and I paid the price for being so famous and not having that foundation."
"Fame is a very weird thing. I enjoyed every single minute of it until I realized that the only thing in my life was fame. I didn't like it and I got very unhappy, my moods shifted, I started doing drugs, and I just thought, 'Where am I? Who am I? What have I become?'"
"And all that changed in 1990 when I did get sober, when I refound my old self, and it was lovely to find that little boy again."
It's safe to say that John, who legally changed his name in 1972, has been rocking this new chapter ever since.