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January 31, 2000

You know, I understand that I work in the retail business and that as a 'salesman' if you will, I am supposed to act in a formal manner... ...however, the line has to be drawn somewhere.

I was shelving some iomega jaz drives and a man came up to me and said, 'excuse me.' and I turned around and said, 'yeah?' you know, a friendly welcoming 'yeah', not be any means repulsing, or in any way disrespectful. And he comes back with, 'Yeah?... ...Yeah!?!, uh.' and then walks away. I'm like, 'okay apparently friendly conversation is below him and only his wife and kids can address him with out saying, 'sir what is it you need sir?'

He comes back in a few minutes and asks to speak with my manager. And although I get this strange feeling Mike G would have sided with me, I just started to apoligize and he cuts me off and says, you'd better apoligize... ...I mean "yeah"?' At this point I was about ready to throw a jaz drive at him. Turns out he was looking for an overdrive chip for his skank ass slow computer, and I told him that we didn't have the one he wanted but perhaps he could try back after friday when we would probably get them in.

I never really considered myself a disrespectful person, and I don't know what this man went through that day, but somehow I get this feeling that guy came into the store with the thought, 'gee, I'm going to snap at the first person I talk to. Maybe I can be a huge asshole to the employees who don't look like they want to be here anyway... Yeah!'

So the rest of the week school doesn't start until 9:20 which equals an extra two hours of sleep, yay! which is duely needed at this point 'cause I'm feeling kinda deprived.

Note to everyone out there: If for some reason one of your friends/aquantences says or does something that puts you down or makes you feel bad, don't try to pretend you don't care, just say that you don't find it funny, and that you'd rather they stop. I think we are all adults in this world (except for that yeah guy today) and we can all accept having our jokes shot down if it means that we don't ernestly piss anyone off. There is a fine line, but if we enforce it, no one gets hurt.

I took an English test today which I don't feel too confident about, and I have another one tomorrow, I can tell right now that Wuthering Heights is going to be the death of me. I already dislike that book, it reminds me a whole hell of a lot of A Tale Of Two Cities, and I really dispised that book. Other than that, my other classes are running smoothly, and I have some time tomorrow to catch up on my homework.

yeah, you thought it was rain

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