VETERAN SPOT SPAT

A man at Lowe's marched up to a parked truck, demanded military ID from the driver, and got told to "go pound sand" instead.

The encounter started in the Veteran parking spots outside the store. The poster had just gotten out of their truck when a random man came over aggressively and demanded to see a military ID. There was no badge, no uniform, no name tag, just a stranger insisting on proof.

The poster asked the obvious question: did he work there?

He didn't. He said he was just "a concerned citizen."

That didn't help his case. The poster brushed him off, told him to go pound sand, and went inside Lowe's to shop.

There was a little more to the scene than the stranger knew. The poster said they are still in the military, have a military haircut, and drive with a combat veteran license plate on the truck. In their words, they "look the part." But they also pointed out that none of that should have mattered. They were parked in a Veteran spot, and a stranger had no business demanding credentials in the first place.

After buying what they needed, the poster came back out and found the situation had not ended quietly.

The same man was outside, arguing with a Lowe's employee. He was pointing directly at the poster's truck while talking to the employee, still apparently fixated on whether the vehicle belonged there.

The poster didn't describe the rest of the argument, but the sight of the stranger taking it up with store staff made the whole scene stranger still. What had started as an aggressive demand in the parking lot had turned into a dispute with an employee, with the truck itself now serving as the exhibit.

The poster ended the account with one blunt question: "What in the hell is wrong with people?"

In an edit, they added one clarification: they are active military, but not active duty. They serve in the Reserves, and they also have prior active service, along with a DD214.