I work nights. I just got off and I wear scrubs for work since I'm a RN.

I had to get groceries since our fridge is empty and I go into the closest store which happened to be a Walmart. I have a arm basket in my hand grabbing my stuff and this woman in her 30s or 40s asks me in a extremely rude tone "Do you worked there or not?". Now I just got off work and am sleepy and have gotten my fill of rude stupid people for the night. So my automatic reaction is to look down at what wearing, which is clearly scrubs with a embroidered logo in red of the local hospital, and look back into her eyes... "No."

Her reaction was to yell loudly into the pretty much empty store to not be so rude about it. This woman is not crazy looking. She's a well dressed middle aged mom with acrylic nails and beached hair cut short. In other words based on her appearance she was just a bitch looking to shit on some poor walmart employee and to hell with the rest of us.

This is NOT the first time this has happened to me. There has been several times in my life that people have mistaken me as some store employee when I'm clearly not. Why is this so common? And yes I remember this because they pissed me off every time.

Once in a Radioshack who's employees all wear red and black. I was in jeans and a bright purple shirt with a band name on it. Irritated old man proceeded to ask me a bunch of random crap about why his Sprint bill was so high.

Once in a Walmart after midnight I was in PJ [I was 17] bottoms pushing a cart. Irate middle aged woman is screaming at me, I pull my headphones out, and she is screaming about how I'm ignoring customers.

Once in a ColdStone my son dropped his ice cream cup in the floor. Peanuts and crap was everywhere so I asked the lady behind the counter for a broom and started wiping up the ice cream while my son cried some. He was 3. Another white middle aged woman comes over and starts getting up my butt about me making him another fucking ice cream because I was stupid enough to hand a toddler a ice cream. She thought I workered there and I obviously didn't. Two, she was insulting me for untrusting my son to hold his small cup of ice cream which the employee handed to me and I handed to him. He tripped and fell. Life happens. But I was 22 then and what happened next was not my shining moment.