What A Way To Start The New Year.
I thought these photos were benign enough. I had to laugh at my neighbor...just toss that old tree in the yard! Someone will cart it away eventually.
Better than my mood last night.
The year started out well... until yesterday.
I had a 'professional challenge' with a new client. She poked her head in my door and said she would be right in after she'd finished her cigarette.
That was nice, thank you.
We talked over the job she had for me.
We talked over the jewelry I have on display.
We talked for 15 minutes.
I walked with her out to the lobby to discover that she had placed her still lit cigarette on the threshold INSIDE the door! It had burned and burned for the entire time!
UGH!
"I know, I know..." she says.
As my eyes are bugging out of my head and my 'professional' demeanor is straining (and cracking) it's limits, I quickly escort her outside. (She futilely brushes the two inches of ash off my floor, meekly apologizing left and right)
I was so stunned.
After she'd gone (of course) I thought of the dozens of things I'd wished I'd said;
What is it that "I know, I know."???
Is that supposed to make it better?
That you 'know' that your smoke damages my health, my property, my client's property, my paint, my fabrics, my hair?
Does your meekly and immediately admitting your guilt absolve you in some way?
Did you deliberately ignore the law in California that prohibits smoking inside ANY public building?
Did you think that law was for everyone else?
If you knew it was wrong, why did you choose to do the wrong thing?
Do you often choose wrong over right?
Did you realize that now and for another hour and a half, I need to turn off my heater, open all my windows and doors, turn on the only fan, (the one in the bathroom) and continue to work in the cold and damp until quitting time?
Did you want me to add the dry cleaning bill for all of my antique and display dresses to your $20.00 job?
And here I thought that NO SMOKING signs were a thing of the past!!
ARG!!!
I'm glad I didn't say any of those things.
Especially with all of the scriptures hanging on my walls.
Especially since the smoke cleared and there was no damage.
My red-head temper is such a challenge.
Why can't I be a sweet tempered brunette?
posted by Kedge @ 10:18 AM
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9 Comments:
Happy New Year! We got 2 1/2 inches of rain so far here in Los Angeles, which is greatly appreciated.
Glad for the rain in LA...we are having a somewhat of a drizzle. Nevertheless we are gratefull for EVERY drop. Guess we've already passed the 2006 mark.
Our neighbors are sometimes not so very neighborly. But sometimes they are smotherly.
Our grass will soon be green again. I don't like that fading in and out. It's hard enough to see with my nearsightedness.
Ack! Tell her the owner of the big wedding dress will travel 3000 miles just to wring her neck if she tries that again!
Next time she comes, lock your door and hand her the stuff she wants through the window (make sure there is a No Smoking sign in view), and MAYBE she'll get the hint.
Or... you can make a sign to the effect that 'actions that incurr damages to client property or your property, whether intentional or unintentional will result in an additional $50 charge'.
Brunettes aren't always sweet tempered. I know. There's a houseful of them here.
Yah, pass her stuff through the window.
Disgusting. I would of refused to do work for her AND said all those things.
Ok... maybe not! But still, that is disgusting.
Ahhh... I can't help it I'm laughing! Not at you, with you! And if red heads are the only ones with tempers my mom must have done some sorta dye trick in my past! If it's any comfort...I bet she won't do it again.
Kedgy:
It's a good thing you weren't in the public work force in the 70's & 80's!
Smoky Smooches,
Your secret admirer
why is my mom telling ppl there is a house full of bad tempered brunettes where she lives?
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