British grocery store worker Caroline Gardener became an instant hero a while back when she chucked a sack of flour at a motormouthed customer’s head. What would warrant such behavior? We can think of several things but in this instance an irate customer angrily called Ms. Gardener a “filthy dyke” after she informed him the store was out of lime cordial.

She told the tribunal: “I didn’t go for his throat, I just went for his collar because he had really upset me. When he called me a filthy dyke I had a pack of flour in my hand and, although I regret it now, I threw it at the back of his head. He then turned round and said, ‘You are a dyke and you’re going to get the sack’.”

The store fired Ms. Gardener, but this week a labor board ruled that the customer was abusive and that she must either be rehired or paid a settlement. Apparently, the irate customer failed to learn life lesson number one, which is never piss off a lesbian with a sack of flour in hand. Trust us, we know from experience.

Lesbian was unfairly sacked for throwing flour at a customer [The Times of London]