Impersonating a Veteran
Reddit user nowforever13 encountered a moody veteran working at Lowes who thought he was a know it all. But his dad, who had gone with him, was a vet, and he figured out that the Lowes’ employee didn’t know much about anything related to hardware and was lying about having served in Vietnam.
“sort of a you have no power here moment… but funny none the less.
My dad and I went to lowes one time, and the guy helping us had on a veteran hat and a few pins kept trying to insinuate we didnt know what we were talking about, and that we didnt need what we were there for, and kept trying to argue about everything. so my dad asked what service he was in trying to break ice, and the dude said he was in team 6 1970-1974 in Vietnam, and trained in Great lakes. which was the wrong answer.
So my dad asked if he meant seal team 1 or 2. the man recognizing my dads service ring immediately buffed up on my dad and got tomato faced red and tried to assert dominance as a superior. So my dad immediately called the guy on his shtick for stolen valor explained why he was full of crap and threatened to turn him in for it and get his management involved.
i havent seen that guy in town in a while.”