Ever since the summer of 1975, when I first drove up to Santa Ysabel in San Diego County for some…read morebread, I've purchased Dudley's Date Nut Bread on occasion as a morning treat with my coffee.
In 1975, a loaf cost around $3. And, for several decades beyond that time, many outlets in San Diego sold Dudley's Bread, which was nice because it saved people a long drive up to the mountains.
But, as with all good things in life, that too was taken from us all in the name of the mighty, deflating U.S. dollar.
Today, and for quite a long time now, Dudley's $3 loaf of bread costs $7.75 for (one) loaf! You talk about out-and-out, blasphemous greed!
This is a very strange phenomenon that is Satanic in origin, by the way, because of the nature with which it has "slowly" evolved into American society, little by little, over an extended period.
After how I was ignorantly mistreated yesterday at Dudley's Bakery in Santa Ysabel, stating my dissatisfaction with how I (a long-time, paying customer) was poorly mistreated by a young woman who most certainly came across vividly as a bona fide, true to the core, spoiled young liberal female who (unfortunately) happened to end up being the one who I had to deal with at the cash register to pay for the bread I had in my hands.
It was not a direct and/or immediate occurrence, either! I had to stand there for about ten minutes before any employee there even made eye contact!
There were only two points of sale locations at the counter, and both were being attended by female employees who stood there and chatted on and on about everything under the sun with other customers and ignored the job at hand, which is to take money from the next paying customers waiting in line, so that they could be afforded the right to pay for their merchandise, rather than to be completely and utterly ignored!
This is the way liberalism is (allowed) to function in the United States in THESE times we all live in right now.
Attributes such as "The Customer comes first," or having a smile on your face, or saying kind things to make customers feel welcomed and respected, and appreciated are NON-EXISTENT today.
It is all about the liberals and their "feelings."
Now... the bottom line, the meat of what took place at Dudley's Bakery on October 23, 2026, in the late morning when I was there attempting to make a purchase. I was FINALLY acknowledged by a young female employee who rang up the order, and, as with most establishments anymore, they have a POS system where the customer is required to TOUCH a glass screen to complete the transaction.
I mentioned to that cashier that I do not like touching those screens that everyone else touches. So, she reached around and hit one of the functions that allowed me to continue and pay.
But then, in an instant... and very much UNEXPECTEDLY... she asked a question that NO OTHER cashier has EVER asked me before, and that was...
"HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO TIP?"
My reply was, "A TIP?" "Tip for WHAT?" And she said For my service?
I gave her a tip all right, but it was not the kind she expected!
I said to her... "A TIP is something that a person "EARNS" over a period of given time, such as at a dining establishment where the person serving your table has a nice attitude, a smile on their face, takes your order, then brings you your food and takes good care of you and your guests at a table when you are enjoying a meal."
That is what I said to her.
Then she blurted out... "Well, I provided a service to you." And I said, "What "service" was that?"
She said, "This transaction!" And then she gave me an extremely HARD and ANGRY-LOOKING STARE, the kind of hard stare someone would give toward someone who murdered their dog or something of that extreme order!
Then... at the END of that LONG, FIRM, mean-spirited stare, she YELLED OUT very LOUDLY... "GOODBYE!"
Then she quickly walked away! At that point, I asked. "WHERE IS MY RECEIPT?"
She abruptly STOPPED, turned around, and angrily snagged the receipt from the register and tossed it into the bag with the bread. Not EVEN the consideration to ask me (the PAYING CUSTOMER) if I would like the receipt to be handed to me. NOTHING like that! Then, she turned around again and sped off toward the kitchen area.
The original people who began Dudley's Bakery back in the day were always nice, congenial, mature, welcoming, and appreciative of your business. TODAY... it is 180 degrees the opposite of that!
This is HOW an insane society does business when liberalism is allowed to take over common sense and dignity in this world. That event that took place at Dudley's Bakery yesterday left a very bad taste in my mouth as well as in my wallet! As much as I like that Date Nut Bread, and after "5" decades of being a customer there, I have decided to not patronize that business any longer! I did NOTHING at all to deserve to be mistreated and disrespected in the way that employee did toward me yesterday!