Today's OneWord: Judgment

I tried to withhold my judgment of the customer as he berated my coworker about saying, "Happy Holidays!" instead of "Merry Christmas!" I was unsuccessful in doing so.

Being both off-shift and on-call at the café was more than enough to possibly excuse my behavior and avoid my getting fired. So I approached the red-faced man screaming about "political correctness" and "God's wrath," popped off the plastic lid of my coffee cup, and poured the steaming hot blackness down the front of the jerk's shirt.

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