When a Sales Assistant Insulted My Wife, I Taught Her a Lesson She’d Never Forget
My wife, Emma, has always had an incredible sense of style. The way she combines her outfits draws admiration from friends, family, and even strangers. Her self-confidence is one of the things I love most about her—it’s truly inspiring.
But one incident managed to shake her confidence to its core.
While visiting a shopping center one afternoon, Emma noticed a hiring sign displayed in the window of one of her favorite lingerie stores. She adored the brand for its quality products and elegant displays, and since she was already searching for a retail job, this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
Excited and optimistic, she stepped into the store and approached a sales assistant. However, instead of a friendly greeting, she was met with cold indifference.
When Emma politely asked about the application process, the assistant looked her up and down with a sneer and said, “Look, I don’t think you’re pretty enough for this job. NO CHANCE. Don’t even try.”
Those cruel words shattered Emma. She came home in tears, her self-esteem bruised. Seeing her in that state broke my heart, and I couldn’t believe someone could be so callous and dismissive. But sadness quickly turned into determination—I couldn’t let this slide.
I called my friend Mike, a talent scout with an eye for models, and told him the story. He was just as outraged as I was and agreed to help me teach the sales assistant a lesson.
The next day, Mike and I returned to the store. I pretended to browse while Mike introduced himself to the same sales assistant. He explained that he was searching for fresh faces for an upcoming modeling campaign.
The assistant’s demeanor instantly changed. She adjusted her hair, straightened her clothes, and struck exaggerated poses, trying to impress Mike. But after a few moments, Emma walked into the store.
Mike turned to the sales assistant and said, “Sorry, you’re not what we’re looking for.” Then, as if noticing Emma for the first time, he added with a smile, “Miss, have you ever considered modeling? You’d be a perfect fit for our campaign.”
Emma’s face lit up with a smile, and the sales assistant’s expression turned sour.
As we left the store together, Emma admitted she felt a little sorry for the assistant. But I knew the lesson had been delivered.
I wanted Emma to understand that her beauty and self-worth aren’t defined by someone else’s shallow opinion—they come from within.
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Heartbreaking Decision: Parents Forced to Pull the Plug on 13-Year-Old Daughter After Sleepover Nightmare!
Australia’s Ally Langdon couldn’t hide her sadness when she talked to a mom and dad who had to make the heartbreaking decision to end the life of their 13-year-old daughter.
Their daughter died because of a dangerous social media trend called chroming, and Langdon, who is also a mom, struggled to keep her tears in.
On A Current Affair, Ally Langdon spoke with Andrea and Paul Haynes about their daughter Esra’s tragic death. Esra died after trying a dangerous trend called chroming, where people inhale toxic chemicals to get high.
Esra was remembered as “determined, fun, cheeky, and talented” by the Montrose Football Netball Club, where she was co-captain. She was a young athlete who raced BMX bikes with her brothers and helped her team win a national aerobics championship in Queensland.
Heartbreaking Decision: Parents Forced to Pull the Plug on 13-Year-Old Daughter After Sleepover Nightmare!
Australia’s Ally Langdon couldn’t hide her sadness when she talked to a mom and dad who had to make the heartbreaking decision to end the life of their 13-year-old daughter.
Their daughter died because of a dangerous social media trend called chroming, and Langdon, who is also a mom, struggled to keep her tears in.
On A Current Affair, Ally Langdon spoke with Andrea and Paul Haynes about their daughter Esra’s tragic death. Esra died after trying a dangerous trend called chroming, where people inhale toxic chemicals to get high.
Esra was remembered as “determined, fun, cheeky, and talented” by the Montrose Football Netball Club, where she was co-captain. She was a young athlete who raced BMX bikes with her brothers and helped her team win a national aerobics championship in Queensland.
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On March 31, Esra went to a friend’s house for a sleepover. Sadly, she tried a dangerous activity called chroming, where she sniffed a can of aerosol deodorant. This caused her to go into cardiac arrest and suffer serious brain damage.
“It was just a normal night for her, hanging out with friends,” Esra’s mom Andrea told Langdon in the interview. Her dad Paul added, “We always knew where she was and who she was with. It wasn’t anything unusual… But that night, we got a call no parent ever wants to get: ‘Come and get your daughter.’”
Langdon explains that Esra’s friends thought she was having a panic attack, but after inhaling the deodorant, her body started to shut down and she went into cardiac arrest. None of the friends knew what to do for a cardiac arrest.
When Andrea got to Esra, paramedics were trying to save her and told her that Esra had been chroming, which Andrea had never heard of before.
Esra was taken to the hospital, and her parents hoped she would recover since her heart and lungs were still strong.
After eight days on life support, Paul and Andrea were told that Esra’s brain was too damaged to be fixed, and they had to make the heart-wrenching decision to turn off the machines.
Struggling to find the words, her parents talked about how painful it was to end their daughter’s life.
Esra’s siblings and friends are now on a mission to warn others about the dangers of chroming, a dangerous trend that led to Esra’s death. Chroming involves inhaling things like deodorant to get high, and it caused Esra to go into cardiac arrest.
Esra’s dad said it was incredibly hard to bring family and friends to the hospital for their final goodbyes. “It was so hard to say goodbye to her,” he said. “We laid with her and hugged her until the end.”
Seeing the parents’ pain, Ally Langdon, who has two young kids of her own, couldn’t hold back her tears.
Since Esra’s death in early April, Paul says the family is completely “broken” and Esra’s siblings, Imogen, Seth, and Charlie, are all devastated. Paul said, “It’s been the hardest, most traumatic time for us. We haven’t been sleeping, eating, or smiling. It’s not just affected us, but the whole community.”
Paul and Andrea didn’t know about chroming before it took their daughter, but now they want to raise awareness about this dangerous trend. Chroming uses everyday products like deodorant, paint, or hairspray to get high, and it can cause serious health problems or death.
Paul wishes he had known about chroming so he could have warned Esra. “If we had known about it, we would have talked to her about it,” he said.
Paul plans to help other parents learn about chroming so they can talk to their kids about it and keep them safe. “Parents need to talk to their children about these dangers,” he said.
Since 2009, chroming has caused many deaths in Australia and around the world. It can lead to seizures, heart attacks, suffocation, and more.
Paul said, “We will always remember what we saw. It broke our hearts.”
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