Random Stories about Vegans Who Went Too Far (16 items)

• (#1) This Vegan Doesn't Even Want To See The Word Bacon

  A woman comes into my work planning to get a vegetarian sandwich. On the provided bag (as on every bag) you get the choice to add bacon, which is too much for her to handle. She starts ranting about "how could you even suggest that bacon could go on a vegetarian sandwich? I'm a vegan and bacon is terrible."

  The resulting conversation follows:

  Her: "You shouldn't be allowed to put bacon on a vegetarian sandwich!"

  Me: "Ma'am, we're not going to change our bags just for you."

  Her: "I don't like your tone! Get me your manager."

  Me: "I'm the closest thing to a manager we have right now." (I'm like, assistant manager and the owner is out of state)

  Her: "I don't believe you!" and continues to rant. 

  Me: "If you think that our bags are so terrible, then you're welcome to leave the store. We don't need your business and we don't need you coming around when there are other customers and disturbing them while they are trying to eat."

  Her: "I'm going to get my friends and we're going to boycott this place!"

  Me: "Go ahead, ma'am. This is private property and I have every right to force you to leave."

  And she storms out angrily, never to be seen here again. I hope she chokes on a carrot."
• (#2) That's One Way To Get Out Of Class

  During school, a classmate is explaining her vegan lifestyle to our class. I ask why do you do it, she responds by asking if I drink milk. I say yes, which sets her off and leads to her saying things like "Don't you know milk actually decreases calcium in your body?" and proceeds to yell for a few minutes before she just storms out the room.
• (#10) There's Nothing Worse Than A Disseminator Of False Vegan Information

  So one of my girlfriends is vegan, and she always tries to spread rumors or make me believe myths about animal products. 

  Today, for example, she tries to convince me that cow's milk has puss in it. I promptly search this on Google, and lo and behold, it's not true. In fact, everywhere I look said that whoever tells you such myths only tells you to stop you from drinking milk.

  Though I never, ever judge her on what she eats, she constantly attempts to "convert" me into a vegan. She tells me meat causes cancer, milk has puss, eggs are extremely unhealthy, a full laundry-list of facts that may or may not be real. I understand her passion for avoiding animal products, but it feels like I'm the atheist and she is the cherry-picker Christian.

  How can I get her to stop? Whenever I tell her what she says is false, even if I send a link to a website debunking the myth, she gets rude and gives me attitude. This is the most annoying thing I have had to deal with, ever.
• (#6) The First Mistake Was Going To The Warped Tour

  The setting is the Vans Warped Tour 2007 in Dallas. Boyfriend and I discover we can get backstage passes if we sign up on the bone marrow donor list, so we do.

  We get our wristbands and we begin wandering around behind the stages and the trailers and whatnot. Some security guy comes up to us to ask if we would like to meet some of the bands, to which we say "F**k yeah!"  

  We follow him into a building where there are other "back stagers." They inform us that we get to serve the bands their dinner!

  So we stay and are each put in charge of different items. My station is corn-on-the-cob, which also requires me to butter said corn using either regular butter and vegan butter depending on the person's preference. 

  Turns out there are a lot of vegan band members, many I don't recognize. Some of them, like Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage and Haley Williams from Paramore, are incredibly nice to us. There were others though, that bitched if I gave them 'too much butter' on their corn. Others, however, just pass by and ignore me flat out when I ask them nicely if they want some corn. Some guy comes back and actually throws the corn down and says "that butter is nasty," as if I churned it myself. I never actually tried the vegan butter, but I'm guessing it was bad?
• (#12) One More Reason To Avoid Your High School Reunion

  I am attending a high school reunion, and an old schoolmate begins telling us about her job as a waitress at a high-end restaurant. She gets a bit graphic detailing how the chef kills multiple lobsters, and my vegan friend who is listening with me puts her fingers in her ears!

  I'm also a vegan but I found this incredibly rude and thought it sent out a message that vegans are antisocial extremists, which Iguess might be the case with my friend.
• (#16) Just Eat Your Grandma's Soup

  My friend always tells me how she hates her parents, how they annoy her, how she can't wait to be on her own, move out, get her own place, etc. She says she wants to go to beauty school. I tell her that it isn't a very good choice, but to each their own.

  She tries to be vegan, and at the very least, vegetarian. While currently on vacation with family, and she messages me all the time about something they do to annoy her. Her grandma makes her turkey soup, to which she says she doesn't eat meat. Her grandma insists that she eat it, and it pisses her off. Apparently her grandma "isn't respecting me, so I won't treat her with respect." 

  Now this hurts. My grandparents on my father's side both passed away, and I loved them. My grandpa on my mom's side passed, and he was like my second dad; meanwhile, my grandma on my mom's side suffers from Parkinson's disease. Needless to say, my grandparents are extremely important to me.

  And now my whiny friend complains about her grandma, using veganism as an excuse, and it both infuriates me and breaks my heart. She has complained for the past week about her cousins, their parents, people not accepting her choices, when really, they are just worrying about her not eating. In each interaction she relays or sends to me via text, I see general concern, but she twists it into them being rude and stuck-up.

  I know it's her life and none of my business, but it hurts me that uses being vegan to disrespect those closest to her.

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