The Rude Hamptons - Tales of People Behaving Badly In Long Island’s Summer Playground

So, I decided to get out early on Saturday morning to do some yard saling. Me and my sister ran into Noyak Deli in Sag Harbor to get breakfast. We ordered and were just standing around waiting for it to be ready.

A little later, two young college dropout looking guys go up to the counter with five or six cases of beer and start yelling at the cashier because the store doesn’t take ATM Cards and they have no other way of payment.

Me and my sister were actually scared to go get our breakfasts on the counter once they were ready because of how angry these guys were getting.

It’s not the cashier’s fault they don’t take ATM Cards! And it’s not like there’s anything they can do about it. You don’t have money? Sucks for you! Yelling will not make an ATM Machine suddenly appear so chill out and enjoy your vacation in the Hamptons.

- Hannah

Saturday Aug 30. Labor Day Weekend.

I go into Java Nation like I’ve been doing pretty much every day. I know everyone that works there & has worked there. I have a thermos which grants me a small discount on a cup of coffee there.

Every day it’s $1.00, regardless of who’s working.

But today one of the owners (pretty obvious which one since the other one is cool as shit) told me $1.75. I actually had only brought four quarters with me, so I had to bring up the discrepancy.

The owner got mad with me about disputing the price & took my coffee out of my hand & tossed it into the sink, handed me back my empty thermos, & yelled GET OUT & pointed to the door.

I really wasn’t going to force the issue and was about to ask her if I can bring her the 75 cents next time, since I’m in there everyday but by that time she was already wasting my coffee down the sink.

My suggestion is f*ckin hire somebody so she don’t have to be behind the counter cuz that sh!t isn’t working.

- Devoted Java Nation Customer

Read Heather’s post and thought I’d share.

I’m a Sag Harbor native now living in Arizona. Yeah, I wish it was the way it was when we were growing up (for me that would be the late 60s, 70s, and early 80s).

When I was 12, I worked at a farm stand on the highway in Sagaponack. (This was about 1979 or 1980.) Every Sunday the highway was crammed wtih traffic going back to the city. We had a lot of business on Sundays.

One day a woman bought a bunch of produce. About ten minutes later she returned to the stand, stood in front of me, and uncurled her hand, which held a nickel.

I didn’t get it, but being a polite young (country) boy, I asked her if could help her. “You shortchanged me a nickel,” she said, delivered in an intonation which suggested I’d committed an offense on a par with running over one of her children in the street.

Some things have never changed out there, Heather. Just the good things.

Scott S.

My husband, son, and I were working in a Sag Harbor store refinishing the floors.

I just finished vacuuming and was bringing the vacuum out to the van. As I was doing this two couples walked by and one of the women said, “Look at this modern day witch.”

I promptly said to the husband, “you’d better watch your wife, or she’ll get knocked on her ass.”

I walked back inside and told my son what the lady said. My son asked, “where are they now?”
“7-11″

My son walked into 7-11 and said to the woman, “you know that was my mother you were talking to. You know that was really rude and uncalled for.”
At this point I walked up to her and asked her, “Do you have anything to say now since I don’t have a vacuum in my hand?”

She replied, “No, no.”

- Hotline caller

Please note I had to transcribe this and I accidentally deleted if after hearing it a few times. Still learning this voice mail system. Caller if I missed something please call me back or post a comment. Thanks! The Editor