Smile, you're on candid camera.....
Have to tell you the evening I had last night.
after getting kiddo home from school, homework done, dinner for her and picking up hubby from work....we took kiddo to Cadets for her meeting. after that we decided we were just going to go and get a pizza from Sobeys (grocery store for those that dont know the chain) and then go home and relax until pick up time for the monster.
so we venture into the store to order our pizza at the deli register. as we are standing there the woman working in the area was doing her "chores" for end of day looking up at us with what i felt was an eyeroll and sigh of "cant you see i have better things to do then help customers" look. there wasnt a "hi, can i help you" or "hi, anything for that matter". we told her we wanted to order a pizza and again got the feeling we were bothering her. we ordered the pizza and then asked if we could pay for it now....we get a sigh out of her and she walks away to get the bar code for the pizza to be rung in, returns, scans it and tells me how much it will be. do the transaction...she gives me my recipts and nothing. i stand there and ask her "20 minutes?"..her reply was "yeah...about that". OMG she had some stick up her butt. through all that i was still polite to her knowing she was making my pizza. but i will say this....there is going to be a letter to the deli manager about this employee and her customer service skills or lack there of. if the pizza there wasnt so good and we had other places to go to for what we like i wouldnt go there cuz of this....but im going to complain...it was so not right and she shouldnt be working with customers if that is how she treats them....bad day or not.
so while we were waiting for our pizza we took a walk into the mall and down to the book store for a browse. as we were looking at books for kiddo i was standing infront of a section a good arms length back from the shelf but reading the book spines to see what was there. this "lady" that was also looking at books decided to move directly in front of me and start looking at books. when i say in front of me i mean like we were standing in some line to look at the shelf. i stood there in amazement with my jaw hanging in shock that this women is doing what she just did. I made the comment "gee, i was looking at book but i'll move over here". this women didnt even react to what i said ....NOTHING. i said my comment loud enough that hubby heard me and he actually saw what happened and was laughing at the whole thing on how oblivious this woman was to what she had done.
thinking back on this i should have tapped her on the shoulder and excused her for doing what she did or something like that. but then i was also laughing to myself about how silly all this was and how i felt like i had been on candid camera or just for laughs because it was just so strange and insane how this all went down. im still in a shock how this woman did this to me...just flabbergasted...or gobsmacked as hubby said.
when it was time to get kiddo we went early and got a treat on the way (Wendys frosty treat). I went in to get the kiddo noticing that a couple other parent were going in tonight so i thought i would follow in to see them practice there drill. when i got in there i scanned the kids and didnt see my daughter at first knowing i dropped her off wearing a purple sweatshirt and jeans. but there she was....IN UNIFORM! i was so proud when i saw her all dressed up in her cadet uniform. she looks so good in it being tall and thin like she is. she fit right in with all the other kids and she even said she liked it. oh what a difference a uniform makes on a person on how they act and carry themselves. when we got home she asked us to take some pictures of her so we did and i helped her hang everything perfect and neatly so we didnt have to do anything to the uniform since it was all pressed and fresh looking for the next meeting.
with all the stress around kiddo lately with her attitude and school work this moment made it all go away (for that bit). its funny how as your kid grows you remember all the good and happy times over the bad and rough time. im so proud of her and hope she really puts everything she has into this and becomes confident in who she is.
hope you have a great wednesday.....hugs
after getting kiddo home from school, homework done, dinner for her and picking up hubby from work....we took kiddo to Cadets for her meeting. after that we decided we were just going to go and get a pizza from Sobeys (grocery store for those that dont know the chain) and then go home and relax until pick up time for the monster.
so we venture into the store to order our pizza at the deli register. as we are standing there the woman working in the area was doing her "chores" for end of day looking up at us with what i felt was an eyeroll and sigh of "cant you see i have better things to do then help customers" look. there wasnt a "hi, can i help you" or "hi, anything for that matter". we told her we wanted to order a pizza and again got the feeling we were bothering her. we ordered the pizza and then asked if we could pay for it now....we get a sigh out of her and she walks away to get the bar code for the pizza to be rung in, returns, scans it and tells me how much it will be. do the transaction...she gives me my recipts and nothing. i stand there and ask her "20 minutes?"..her reply was "yeah...about that". OMG she had some stick up her butt. through all that i was still polite to her knowing she was making my pizza. but i will say this....there is going to be a letter to the deli manager about this employee and her customer service skills or lack there of. if the pizza there wasnt so good and we had other places to go to for what we like i wouldnt go there cuz of this....but im going to complain...it was so not right and she shouldnt be working with customers if that is how she treats them....bad day or not.
so while we were waiting for our pizza we took a walk into the mall and down to the book store for a browse. as we were looking at books for kiddo i was standing infront of a section a good arms length back from the shelf but reading the book spines to see what was there. this "lady" that was also looking at books decided to move directly in front of me and start looking at books. when i say in front of me i mean like we were standing in some line to look at the shelf. i stood there in amazement with my jaw hanging in shock that this women is doing what she just did. I made the comment "gee, i was looking at book but i'll move over here". this women didnt even react to what i said ....NOTHING. i said my comment loud enough that hubby heard me and he actually saw what happened and was laughing at the whole thing on how oblivious this woman was to what she had done.
thinking back on this i should have tapped her on the shoulder and excused her for doing what she did or something like that. but then i was also laughing to myself about how silly all this was and how i felt like i had been on candid camera or just for laughs because it was just so strange and insane how this all went down. im still in a shock how this woman did this to me...just flabbergasted...or gobsmacked as hubby said.
when it was time to get kiddo we went early and got a treat on the way (Wendys frosty treat). I went in to get the kiddo noticing that a couple other parent were going in tonight so i thought i would follow in to see them practice there drill. when i got in there i scanned the kids and didnt see my daughter at first knowing i dropped her off wearing a purple sweatshirt and jeans. but there she was....IN UNIFORM! i was so proud when i saw her all dressed up in her cadet uniform. she looks so good in it being tall and thin like she is. she fit right in with all the other kids and she even said she liked it. oh what a difference a uniform makes on a person on how they act and carry themselves. when we got home she asked us to take some pictures of her so we did and i helped her hang everything perfect and neatly so we didnt have to do anything to the uniform since it was all pressed and fresh looking for the next meeting.
with all the stress around kiddo lately with her attitude and school work this moment made it all go away (for that bit). its funny how as your kid grows you remember all the good and happy times over the bad and rough time. im so proud of her and hope she really puts everything she has into this and becomes confident in who she is.
hope you have a great wednesday.....hugs
Labels: air cadets, kiddo, pizza, proud, rude people, store
posted by CaliGirl at
8:55 a.m.
