I’m just finding it hard to believe that you didn’t know woke was a black word, unless you don’t have much experience being around black culture.

(And stop calling it “AAVE”, you dork.)

Then obviously you don’t listen to enough hip hop.

You’re joking, right? “Stay woke” has been a phrase since forever.

What I hate even more is they more and more stores are disabling the mute button, leaving you with Loud and Louder as your only volume choices.

When I worked self checkout at Safeway, first thing I would do at the start of my shift is mute every self checkout register. You can tell if a customer needs help from the lights alone; no need for the obnoxious, repetitive script. But unfortunately a lot of cashiers are too stupid to realize what the lights are for, so they crank the volume so that their Boomer ears can hear them. Drives me nuts.