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One time after school 3 of my friends and I went to the gas station to get some drinks and while we were in there, there was this middle aged white lady who kept staring at us. Idk if this had something to do with race, maybe it did maybe it didn't but 3 of us (including me) were Hispanic and the other was mixed. This lady was watching us the whole time we were shopping and it was honestly creepy. We payed and left and after we had gotten out the shop the lady came up to us and was like "you criminals how dare you steal, I suggest you go back in and pay before I call the cops" and obviously we did not steal so we're just kinda like "uhh what??" And this lady just kept going on about kids our age and that she "knows what we are up to" and it was getting annoying so we walked off while she was like screaming at us saying we were "going to hell". I haven't seen her since but I'm pretty sure she made a complaint or something because now the gas station only allows 2 school kids in at a time. 🤷‍♀️ This behaviour is really common where I live so it doesn't surprise me anymore but it's just still so confusing on why most adults think that every teenager is a criminal??

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