Today, I had one goal in mind: To no get upset with anyone at all. That’s a fucking tall order for me knowing my short fuse, but still doable.

So as the day went, I didn’t get upset while reading in the coffee shop and some “very important” man sat next to me, practically yelling on his cell about how he wanted his meeting to go, and how Jas would just have to get the stuff in time or else… and Mike had better start producing, they didn’t hire him to just sit in that office… No, I didn’t get upset that he kept taking me in and out of my novel with his big ego.

I certainly didn’t get upset when this arrogant man came to my window and started telling me that our number-calling system didn’t make any sense and that he had been there 15 minutes and still couldn’t figure it out… I simply replied that I had been working there for almost 3 years and a lot of things still didn’t make sense to me either.

I also didn’t get upset when I called the next guest at my window and he slowly walked while on his cell phone and just stood there finishing his conversation instead of engaging with me. And I didn’t get upset a few seconds later when, instead of waiting for him to finish, I decided to call another person to serve, telling “cell conversation guy” that I’d serve him once he hung up the phone.

And I was still all smiles when this guy came to my window and asked if I minded him eating his sandwich while I served him. I only replied that this wasn’t my house, he was free to do as he wanted. So as I helped him fill out his forms, he chewed and talked at the same time. A little later on, he asked once again if it bothered me, more in a way of taunting me I thought… I said it was just fine with me but that he had better finish it before sitting down with the Justice of the Peace as THEY didn’t like crumbs all over their work stations…

I was cool as a cucumber when this other person had me repeat myself approximately 17 times during our conversation regarding his 3 options with the speeding ticket he was holding… I could hear my co-worker snicker, but me, I wasn’t getting upset at all…

And when the next customer came to my window and said that he would have lost his cool pretty quickly with the “hard of hearing guy” before him, I simply replied that is was all good, that I was paid a really good amount of money per week to deal with this… He asked where he could apply for the job.

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