If you are reading this and you are taller than most females then i feel sorry for you. Well no, wait. I shouldn't say that I feel sorry for you. Some tall girls actually enjoy being tall. I am not one of them though. Some days i'm all gung ho on being 5'9", and then others i want them to chop off my legs from the knees down. And I guess what makes it even worse is that my significant other happens to be 5'7"...so we look interesting together. We are cute together, (or at least i think we are), but whenever we walk somewhere people are constantly staring. At first i told myself that people are starting because we are such a good looking couple..but i'm not quite that dilusional. I know that they are staring because with the right pair of shoes i tower over him. This is the only thing that i'm self conscious about. If you are reading this and you are tall, Do you like being tall or does it bother you? Email me and let me know.
However...yesterday, my experience at another grocery store caused me to become irritated and even a bit hostile towards the employees. I usually do my grocery shopping at the store where i am employed...but i work at a store that is 40 minutes away from my house and i wasn't feeling like driving there just to get apple juice and peanut butter.So i went to the store right up the road..a store which i do not like. Heres the thing..when you are working in retail there is hardly reason to be rude. I understand if a customer is being rude to you that you would feel a need to be a bit hostile..hell, I have been! But if the customer is being nice and isn't acting rude or hostile..being rude is so uncalled for. Here is the account of what happened..(and i'm sure you can't wait to read about it...)
1. Customer Serivce Desk. None of the isles are marked, so I, being a part time shopper, have no idea where anything is. I stop at the customer service desk to inquire the whereabouts of my items. As I am walking to the desk I turn to my mother and say, "ten bucks this guy doesn't know where this stuff is"...I won ten bucks yesterday. He didn't know anything nor did he make an attempt to find out where the stuff was. He just said, "umm, i'm not sure". So i said, "Well could you find out?" and he got all huffy and says, "Hold on!" and stomps away. Yeah,I know what you all are thinking, shame on me for making this kid work. So he comes back and tells me where everything is in this pissed off tone, so i very calmly say, "Yeah thanks for finding out. Heaven forbid you do your job". (I'm not usually rude but he was asking for it)
2. Deli counter. Today there was no one else waiting there while my mother and i go back to get our turkey and cheese. We walk up to the counter and order our luncheon meats. The girl is nice enough but it took her 10 minutes to cut the damn meat. Wonder why? Because she was having a party behind the counter and decided talking to her fellow employees would be more fun then cutting our meat. WRONG! I had places to go, people to see. But i didn't know how to go about saying something to make her hurry up without seeming really rude so i just gave her the annoyed looked. She got the hint, FINNALLY, and shut up long enough to finish cutting my meat. (but i did learn something while i was waiting there. The Wisconsin cheese of the month is Cheddar)
3. Check out lane. This is the place i am most sympathetic b/c i was primarily a cashier for 3 years. The cashier was not friendly at all. Infact, she was so grumpy that i debated talking to a manager..something that i thought i would never do. She threw my food down the belt, grabbed my money from my hand and practically threw the change back at me. All this for saying hello and being friendly. I was insulted.
So whats the moral to this fun story? Being rude to nice people should be a crime...and, don't ever shop at Clemens.