Aaron Browder just wanted a class ring.

So he went to the Decatur, Alabama Walmart to do just that.

But the jewelry counter worker refused to take his order because West Morgan High School’s mascot is the “rebel,” claiming it is controversial and a symbol of racism.

“I just stood there and thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” Browder tells the Decatur Daily.

But it was no joke. The worker said the ring couldn’t be ordered with the school’s name or mascot on it.

“We didn’t even know how to react,” the student’s mother, Brenda, says. “We stood there looking at each other in complete disbelief, and then we just walked away. It took a while for the anger to set it.”

According to Morgan County school board Chairman Billy Rhodes, the local Walmart manager told him a directive was handed down from the corporate headquarters.

“She told me they are not allowed to special order anything with the Confederate flag on it,” Rhodes tells the paper. “Walmart has this policy, and the people who work there are doing what they’ve been instructed to do.”

“The whole experience is disappointing,” Aaron Browder says. “To be told that my school is racist and controversial is an insult to me, and it’s an insult to my school pride.”

The incident comes on the heels of a Louisiana man’s attempt to order a cake featuring the Confederate flag at a Walmart.

He wanted it to include the wording, “heritage not hate,” KFOR reports. The store rejected his order.

So the same man asked the same store to bake a cake with the ISIS flag on it. It complied.

“An associate in a local store did not know what the design meant and made a mistake,” a Walmart spokesperson told ABC News. “The cake should not have been made and we apologize.”