S M R T
Alright, I'll be the first to admit that patience is a virtue that I have little of at the moment.
What am I saying? I rarely have patience at all! The list of things (well, people) I patient for is short - students, old people... but there are still conditions: are they really challenged or just acting like it and being lazy? are they wearing a hat while driving 30km under the speed limit?
I'd like to think that I'm a caring individual but really, and those that know me well know this to be true - I'm a snob. I pass judgment on people quickly, but the problem is that I have rarely been proven incorrect about my initial judgment which leads me to hanging onto those opinions long after I should have just been a 'nice' person and let them go.
Case in point: Subway - 1 week ago.
Bella and I had ordered soup with our sandwich. The 'artist' had said that that soup/sandwich combo drops the price of the soup by a dollar (which is what the sign said that she was pointing to when she told us this). Get to the till and apparently that rule doesn't apply anymore. I'm sorry - you're an idiot! You just said one thing and then are confused about your answer a mere minute later? So Bella pointed out that in fact, the sign says... I really enjoyed the part when Bella told the 'artist' to read the sign he had pointed out to us in the first place. Awesome.
So we're sitting there eat our dollar soup and watching the three artists gather around the
till and then this arm shoots straight up out of the huddle and points at us, waves, and drops back into the huddle.
Bella and I look at each other, look at the counter, look at each other and roll our eyes and make yet another remark about the required skills to be a manager of this particular subway.
The problem was that they had just noticed that the interac was displaying "transaction not complete" which I had seen while I was paying with cash - as had Bella. They were sure it had to have been one of us that had ripped them off but as we refilled our fountain drinks illegally we assured the artists that in fact we had paid with cash.
That is just one of the many cases of stupidity I've encountered this summer that has made me realize how impatient and snobby I am.
As for right now - I'm impatient because I'm waiting for my editing to be FINISHED but I have to hand it into my final reader who requested it for this weekend. It's been ready since Friday night but he's not getting back to me. I have stuff to do other than have a forced holiday.
Sure, sure... I need to relax, de-stress, and all that other nonsense but I cannot do that when I know I have a whole pile of other stuff looming over my head next week and for the following 1o months. I have never been this unprepared. *sigh* Even though the forced holiday is almost done - I'm hoping - I still can't truly enjoy it because me head is still whirring. Stupid brain. Dang.
What am I saying? I rarely have patience at all! The list of things (well, people) I patient for is short - students, old people... but there are still conditions: are they really challenged or just acting like it and being lazy? are they wearing a hat while driving 30km under the speed limit?
I'd like to think that I'm a caring individual but really, and those that know me well know this to be true - I'm a snob. I pass judgment on people quickly, but the problem is that I have rarely been proven incorrect about my initial judgment which leads me to hanging onto those opinions long after I should have just been a 'nice' person and let them go.
Case in point: Subway - 1 week ago.
Bella and I had ordered soup with our sandwich. The 'artist' had said that that soup/sandwich combo drops the price of the soup by a dollar (which is what the sign said that she was pointing to when she told us this). Get to the till and apparently that rule doesn't apply anymore. I'm sorry - you're an idiot! You just said one thing and then are confused about your answer a mere minute later? So Bella pointed out that in fact, the sign says... I really enjoyed the part when Bella told the 'artist' to read the sign he had pointed out to us in the first place. Awesome.
So we're sitting there eat our dollar soup and watching the three artists gather around the
till and then this arm shoots straight up out of the huddle and points at us, waves, and drops back into the huddle.
Bella and I look at each other, look at the counter, look at each other and roll our eyes and make yet another remark about the required skills to be a manager of this particular subway.
The problem was that they had just noticed that the interac was displaying "transaction not complete" which I had seen while I was paying with cash - as had Bella. They were sure it had to have been one of us that had ripped them off but as we refilled our fountain drinks illegally we assured the artists that in fact we had paid with cash.
That is just one of the many cases of stupidity I've encountered this summer that has made me realize how impatient and snobby I am.
As for right now - I'm impatient because I'm waiting for my editing to be FINISHED but I have to hand it into my final reader who requested it for this weekend. It's been ready since Friday night but he's not getting back to me. I have stuff to do other than have a forced holiday.
Sure, sure... I need to relax, de-stress, and all that other nonsense but I cannot do that when I know I have a whole pile of other stuff looming over my head next week and for the following 1o months. I have never been this unprepared. *sigh* Even though the forced holiday is almost done - I'm hoping - I still can't truly enjoy it because me head is still whirring. Stupid brain. Dang.
posted by Maggie at
26.8.07
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