Getting it out of my system...
Mar. 21st, 2005 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThis guy walks into the store and wants to fax pages from a book. He gets annoyed when he finds out he needs to copy the pages before he can fax them, implying that this so-called "requirement" is driven by the profit motive (3.2 cents a page) and not by the simple fact that it's really farblegargling hard to pass the book through the fax machine. Ye gods.
Today was also the day when I stood all I could stand until I could stand no more of people (FWIW, almost always men) who toss money on the counter when paying for something. It just smacks to me of disrespect to both the money - yeah, I know: it doesn't really care - and to me (who does). After receiving payment for postage from a fellow who extracted money from his wallet and let it go in my direction as if it was diseased, I put the funds in the cash drawer and then tossed a fella's change back at him (a nickel), trying to put as much "English" into the action as I could, under the circumstances.
I immediately regretted doing so, not because it might have been poorly received by the customer, but because it just wasn't the way I'd been taught to handle money. I'd momentarily allowed myself to descend (from my perspective) to the other fellow's level, and wasn't too proud of it.
Speaking of pet peeves, another one that haunts me from my upbringing is guys who eat wearing their hats. Now, I don't expect guys to uncover and conform to Amy Vanderbilt's rules of etiquette for the use of the butter knife, say, in a combat zone or at a construction site (though if circumstances warrant... why not?), but when I see folks wearing their hats in restaurants, I can't help but feel dissed.
Dinner is at the kids' place tonight, where I'll probably end up helping Drew set up his router. I need to leave instanter.
Cheers...
Today was also the day when I stood all I could stand until I could stand no more of people (FWIW, almost always men) who toss money on the counter when paying for something. It just smacks to me of disrespect to both the money - yeah, I know: it doesn't really care - and to me (who does). After receiving payment for postage from a fellow who extracted money from his wallet and let it go in my direction as if it was diseased, I put the funds in the cash drawer and then tossed a fella's change back at him (a nickel), trying to put as much "English" into the action as I could, under the circumstances.
I immediately regretted doing so, not because it might have been poorly received by the customer, but because it just wasn't the way I'd been taught to handle money. I'd momentarily allowed myself to descend (from my perspective) to the other fellow's level, and wasn't too proud of it.
Speaking of pet peeves, another one that haunts me from my upbringing is guys who eat wearing their hats. Now, I don't expect guys to uncover and conform to Amy Vanderbilt's rules of etiquette for the use of the butter knife, say, in a combat zone or at a construction site (though if circumstances warrant... why not?), but when I see folks wearing their hats in restaurants, I can't help but feel dissed.
Dinner is at the kids' place tonight, where I'll probably end up helping Drew set up his router. I need to leave instanter.
Cheers...
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Date: 2005-03-24 03:55 pm (UTC)I think it's pretty disrespectful to just toss money, but I think I would have gone the other way to prove my point. The next time that happens, Dad, you should count out their change in the form of pennies. And hand it to them one by one.
"36...37...38...and 39. Have a nice day, plick!"