It was absolutely beautiful when I exited my employment's large building at 2pm this afternoon. I had the windows down, sun in my face and wind in my hair it was all good! I drove to Hamilton went into a meeting with the sun beaming and just a sense of "awwww it's finally nice weather" to finishe my meeting and come out to grey, hazed over ....rainy crap! I hate when it goes from beautiful to crap because my mood goes from beautiful to crap in roughly the same speed. I drove home with my 12 year old son wanting to argue about every darn thing. Sky is blue...nope, I know mom its not! Yeah that's just about how every darn conversation went. So my crap mood went to super irritable mood within my hour drive. Now by the time I deposited my son at my parents place and picked up my daughter....she had plans for me.....oh yes, trip to my favourite place...the mall and on a Friday night...oh joy! So I directed Geoff to park in the back near an entrance that I thought was close to where we needed to go, but I was wrong so I had to walk right through the very full food court right at supper time, with everyone eating plates of food that looks and smells so good .... did I mention I was oh about an hour and a half late eating my supper by now. So through the food court and around the mall we go....we get where we need to be and the one person that can help us is ....yes, on the phone! It doesn't really sound like a business call but he continues his conversation. What the heck happened to customer service?! I have seen a few things lately that makes me shutter. I was trained by the Retail Council of Canada in customer service and management and managed retail stores.....the way some of these employees treat the customers they would have been fired by me instantly! Now once he removed his ear from the phone he really was a nice young man that was very knowledgable and quite helpful to us. It isn't a good way to start a sale totally ticking the customer off! Finally got out of the darn mall and did some quick banking and headed home in the crap weather. Can you tell how thrilled I am about the rain ...again! I am so hungry by the time I get home that I felt sick trying to eat...so I have only had a few bites of my supper. Oh yes, the ignoring part of the blog title....when you haven't seen someone for a length of time, like 4 weeks and you know they were away for a health related reason, lets say like gastric bypass surgery what is the first thing you say to them? I have had "wow, you look amazing", "oh my you can really see the weight loss" "holy crap, how much did you lose" even "lets get a good look at ya" but "stand up so I can see you" was one I got which isn't bad but it was followed by a "How much did you lose" which again is ok. When I responded with my amount of weight reduction and size decline it was followed with a " oh, it's not really noticeable" I am not generally a lady that is rendered speechless but there is always a first ..... with a dumb founded deer in the headlight kinda look I think I said "gee thanks". Ok so my thought on this is......first: who the heck says that to anyone! Second: Even if you think that you don't say that crap! Third: I am not a huge vain person but damn I know that I see the weight decreasing and so does everyone else.....do you need glasses or coke bottles? My entire life someone has always slammed me for being heavy, even people that were as big or bigger than me mocked my weight ( didn't say they were smart people) but now for the first time in my life I feel good, I am happy (not like when on other diet plans of misery) and some "buttclown" has to open their "yaktrap" to spill out contempt. Well, I will not allow it to upset me.....in fact I had a huge laugh about it with some friends at lunch! I will just continue to ignore the ignoramus' that are around me as I have done for many many years! Have a wonderful weekend folks and don't get caught in the rain!
Cheers
Steph
Cheers
Steph
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