Respect My Stuff!!!!!

This happened a couple of years ago. I was just reminded of it and thought I would share it since I find it pretty entertaning now. I didnt then. LOL
At my job, there is a different company that is contracted to come in during evenings or weekends and clean the buildings. Usually it is just standard stuff but every so often they do more in depth cleaning. Well, it was a Friday and I was scheduled to work all weekend. I brought a container of muffins to work Friday morning, ate a couple of them and saved the rest for the weekend. Toward the end of the day, I was told the clean up crew would be coming so if they asked for access I was to let them in the building. It was time for one of the "big cleanings" and they would be bringing a lot of equipment in. Saturday I made sure to save myself 2 muffins for Sunday - because on the weekends we work alone so we cannot leave to go get any lunch. When I left Saturday evening the clean up crew was downstairs and had not made it to my office yet. When I came back in Sunday I immediately noticed how clean our kitchen was - a pleasant surprise being that I worked with mostly men that dont clean up well behind theirselves. So, I go to the refridgerator to get my bottle of water that I had been refilling each day at the "Mountain Water Dispenser" in the hallway. The bottle was gone. There was barely anything in the fridge at all compared to how it looked the day before. So, there I went - off on a rant, "I can NOT BELIEVE they threw my water bottle away! What right do they have to throw anything away? Even if it was empty, it was in there for a reason! They need to respect my stuff!" Then my head snapped to the left where my muffins used to be on the counter. Thats right. Used to be! I walked slowly to the huge trash can and look down to see the muffins, still safe in their little compartments of the case they came in. I REALLY got mad then! I went on and on about how "I can NOT BELIEVE......" I was pissed! I didnt bring any breakfast and was thining about those muffins on my way to work! After going on and on about it I decided to take them out of the trash and eat them anyway! After all, there wasnt any trash on top of the packaging they were in - so they were fine! Who were they to decide my muffins were no longer good to eat? How dare they! I popped them in the microwave for a few seconds to get them nice and warm and I had the breakfast I had been waiting for. All day I told people the story about the nerve of people to throw my stuff away! Well, I was off work Monday and Tuesday and when I returned Wednesday I was telling a co-worker about it and how mad I was that they did not respect my stuff!!! When I got to the part of the story where I said that I noticed my muffins in the trash, he stopped me and said, "Oh, yeah, I accidentally knocked the muffins off the counter the other day and the thing they were in came open and the muffins were rolling all over the floor. So I threw them in the trash."
Yeah, it's funnier now than it was then!

Is it Just Me?

Is it just me or are some people dumber than the law should allow for no good reason? Sorry to come of so harsh, but seriously... I wonder that sometimes. Really, I dont have a problem with people not knowing something or not fully understanding something, but I hate it when people have no understanding AND they have an attitude. You may see me talk a lot about attitude because I just do not see why people are so rude sometimes. Anyway - let me give you an example. I get some crazy calls at work sometimes and I love to share the stories. I work for an electric company and my department deals with power outages. OK... a guy called and wanted to know if we had an outage at a specific intersection one night. I checked our records and did not see any outages for that area. When I told him that, he got even more rude than he already had been and pretty much told me I had no idea what I was talking about. He insisted that there was an outage to the red light there. He said he sat at the red light for a long time and when he finally decided he had waited long enough, he went through the light and was pulled over and given a ticket. He wanted a letter from us saying we had an outage there that affected the red light. (Does this make sense at all?) So my question to him was "So the light was working?" And he got loud and said "YES! It was working but it wasnt working!! It was red and did not turn green! Can you not hear me? Now I have a ticket because of you and I want a letter! Do you know how to type? Or do you just get paid to sit there and piss people off all day?" So I so politely explained to him that if there was no power going to the light then the light woul not be lit up at all. No red. No yellow. No green. Just nothing. I tried my best to make him understand that all we do is supply power to the light, we dont have anything to do with how long it takes for the light to change. He asked to speak to my supervisor. I usually do not like to transfer calls to my supervisor because he has enough to do and I felt like I could handle it. But by the 3rd time that I tried to explain something so logical and the 4th time that he called me a few words and said he wanted to "talk to someone with some common sense" I saw my boss coming and told him he had a good one waiting to talk to him. After watching my boss sit in silence for a little while he said, "So the light was working?"

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Lighten Up!

What is everyone so mad at? It seems like so many people have an attitude. Is it really THAT bad? Or is it the "in" thing now to be rude and have this "I dont care" persona? Well I just dont get it. What happened to smiling at people when eye contact was made? Simple things like that. OK, so everyone has a bad day sometimes, but there's no need to make it contagious. Anyone who has a customer service job - I feel for you! My job has limited contact with the public but we do have to answer phone clls some times and it amazes me how rude people can be RIGHT from the START of the phone call. Dont get me wrong - I can get mean too, but it takes a lot to get me to that point. But I think some people just wake up mean! Lighten up people! Attitude really is contagious - thankfully ignorance is not!!!!
Of course some people are going to say its not easy to just "Lighten Up" And I understand that. Times are hard right now - I get it! My husband lost his job almost 2 months ago, I'm out of work on short term disability leave right now (66% of my pay) because I am having back surgery in 2 days... life isnt perfect... But walking around with a chip on your shoulder all the time isnt going to lighten your load!

Dwelling On It

OK, hello world. I have been hearing about this blogging thing and decided to give it a try. Why? Because I have a lot to say! Life has taught me a lot! LOL I dont exactly know what I am doing yet but I think if I can figure this out it will be a lot of fun. My mind is always going and going and I have to have some way to get it all out. I am having surgery in a couple days - on Thursday. I am having a microdiskectomy. Did I spell that right? I'm ready to get it over with but of course not looking forward to it. Since June of last year I have been having problems with my back - most symptoms in my left leg. Anyone who has been through it knows it is a pain in the butt - sometimes literally. So - I will be stuck - pretty much in bed for a couple of weeks after the procedure and need something to do. I used to write a lot - but now that the net has taken over the world I am turning to this. I type just like I talk - nonstop. :-) So I may bounce around from subject to subject sometimes - but here is a little about me ---
I am 33 years old, a military brat, one older brother, one niece, married for about a year and a half now, no kids of my own, one step son, home owner, full time job, friends of all sorts from all over the place and a large Southern family - most of us are in Georgia.
There's a lot to me and plenty of time for me to get it all out... but right now what is on my mind is KIDS. Do I want one? I just cant figure it out. My step son is great. He is 9 and Ive been around him for a few years and it is amazing how much he has grown. I am comfortable with him now but it wasnt always like that. I have never really been around kids. I am the youngest, I was not raised around any of my younger cousins, etc so I dont really know how to relate to kids. At first when my husband and I were getting serious, it was a huge adjustment for us all. My step son lives about 3 hours from us and when he would come stay with his Dad before I was in the picture he had his Dad all to himself. Then I came around and invaded his territory. We had to sit down and have a heart to heart talk one evening. Then when we actually moved in together it was another learning experience. Mason was used to sleeping in the bed with Rod and now there I was - in his way again. But we got through that too and now when Mason comes I really enjoy him. He is here now and just seeing how Rod looks at him and how happy he is around him - it makes me wonder if I am robbing myself of the greatest love in the world. Rod is a great Dad. But would I be a good Mom? I have no patience. That scares me. People say I will get some tolerance if I have a child. But will I? Who really knows? My husband and I are best friends. We have no drama in our life. Life is great. So I am afraid of change. I go and do as I please. I know that will come to a screeching hault. Will I feel like I traded in my life to run behind someone else all the time? I have always been an independent woman and I am afraid a child will make me feel like I have lost myself. BUT - I cant imagine that joy of looking at a human being and knowing that I am one half of that person. I wonder what she would look like? I bet she would be the sweetest thing. When I hear kids call their MOMMMMYYY... I wonder how it feels. I think the permanent part is what scares me the most - it's forever. Of course my marriage is forever - and of course we depend on each other - but nobody depends on someone like a child does a Mother. Am I woman enough???? I have never doubted myself in life except for in this department. I was raised to believe I can do anything - I can be anything - I can have anything - and I have achieved everything I have ever truly set my mind to. Most things come easy to me - because I know how I feel and I go from there. But I am totally confused on this one. I dont know how I feel and I dont know what to do. I guess I'll keep dwelling on it. Maybe I will figure it out before it is too late. I hope so.