long drive
this morning i drove an hour each way to an estimate for window shades. doing things like that always makes me think about the realvence of so many of the things i do on a daily basis. or better, how much of what i do day to day is really meaningless.
yesterday was a window treatment day. i drove around and hung up window treatments for people. normally i don't mind installing them...they're easy and i can think about pretty much anything while i'm doing it. on my second job of the day however i was reminded again, why by and large, most people suck.
i arrived a little late because my first job ran over and had tried to call him on my cell phone to tell him i'd be a few minutes late. cell phone didn't get reception. never does. i could hear him, but he couldn't hear me. fine. fucking phone anyway. i show up and he ushers me in as i'm making my apologies all nice and everything, but he barely says hi to me. from then on he ignored me like i wasn't there the entire time...even when i was in the same room as him. that irked me. what really got under my skin though was that as soon as i showed up and got started he went over to the stereo and put on a Luthor Vandros CD and cranked up the volume. and sang! and hummed. and whistled. besides the fact that Luthor Vandros has no muscial talent whatsoever (i KNOW, i had to listen to the CD twice!) and this guys taste in music is stuck somewhere back in '86, the ignoring me and blasting music, any music, while i'm there working was just plain rude.
my last job of the day, however, was for some very nice people. he was English and she was very nice and the job went all smooth and slick, just the way i like it.
the point though is how much time do i 'waste' dealing with fuckers like the guy from job number 2? the anwser is WAY too much time. how can anyone else stand it? why do we treat each other like shit all the time? blah..really starting to bother me more and more these days....why perfect strangers would feel like it was ok to be rude and inconsiderate instead of respectful and helpful to each other.
i want to know nice people. mean people just stress me out too much.
yesterday was a window treatment day. i drove around and hung up window treatments for people. normally i don't mind installing them...they're easy and i can think about pretty much anything while i'm doing it. on my second job of the day however i was reminded again, why by and large, most people suck.
i arrived a little late because my first job ran over and had tried to call him on my cell phone to tell him i'd be a few minutes late. cell phone didn't get reception. never does. i could hear him, but he couldn't hear me. fine. fucking phone anyway. i show up and he ushers me in as i'm making my apologies all nice and everything, but he barely says hi to me. from then on he ignored me like i wasn't there the entire time...even when i was in the same room as him. that irked me. what really got under my skin though was that as soon as i showed up and got started he went over to the stereo and put on a Luthor Vandros CD and cranked up the volume. and sang! and hummed. and whistled. besides the fact that Luthor Vandros has no muscial talent whatsoever (i KNOW, i had to listen to the CD twice!) and this guys taste in music is stuck somewhere back in '86, the ignoring me and blasting music, any music, while i'm there working was just plain rude.
my last job of the day, however, was for some very nice people. he was English and she was very nice and the job went all smooth and slick, just the way i like it.
the point though is how much time do i 'waste' dealing with fuckers like the guy from job number 2? the anwser is WAY too much time. how can anyone else stand it? why do we treat each other like shit all the time? blah..really starting to bother me more and more these days....why perfect strangers would feel like it was ok to be rude and inconsiderate instead of respectful and helpful to each other.
i want to know nice people. mean people just stress me out too much.
