When Steven Lopez was doing some Christmas shopping at his local Walmart, he encountered a woman in a disheveled Army uniform telling people she was about to deploy. After watching the woman walk around the store pretending she was in the military, Lopez cornered her and asked the woman to explain herself.
“You’re wearing something that shouldn’t be worn by a civilian. You’re not in the military,” Lopez told the woman, who claimed that she didn’t know she couldn’t wear the uniform.
According to the woman, the uniform belonged to her son, who deployed this last July.
“In July?” Lopez wondered, before telling her that soldiers don’t typically deploy in July.
“You’re a proud mother and you don’t know what your son’s doing?”
“I wouldn’t have cared if she didn’t claim to be in the army. But the fact that she was posing as a soldier and doing it 5 miles from an army post pissed me off,” Lopez would later write on YouTube.
Throughout the encounter, both Lopez and the woman remain calm, before Lopez asks the woman to leave.
“I don’t know what you expect to get out of wearing a uniform,” Lopez said.
