My Other Blog
- To see my life in stitches, visit my other blog: Autoquiltography
My Web Sites
Pages
Categories
Recently Written
Archives
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Nov
28
season of goodwill to all
Filed Under Head Scratchers
just tell me this: if people can be nice for the last 6 weeks of the year, why can’t they be nice the rest of the time?
i went out bopping today, running errands and trying to finish the shopping so i can get everything in the mail and be done with it (great christmas spirit, eh?), and everybody was so nice. took my mentally handicapped sister-in-law to the airport yesterday, and i thought i was dreaming. delta employees could not have been nicer or more helpful. 2 of the 3 tsa employees were unfriendly, a huge step up from the usual downright rudeness they usually share. the third didn’t disappoint, though. we were in the short special-needs line at the scanning machines, behind a blind guy who (understandably, in my opinion) was a tad on the slow side of getting his things in the gray plastic boxes. here comes the tsa punk kid, pushing me in the back with his finger. and when i said “will you STOP doing that?”, he went around us and started pushing the blind guy around.
“he’s visually impaired,” i said.
this one (who i’m guessing was too smart to stay and finish high school) looked at me blankly. i could tell i’d exceeded his syllable capacity, so i said, “he’s blind.” and with that he huffed back to the wheelchair he was in charge of.
one of the women was so nice, i’ve decided to write her into my book.
when i finally sit myself down to finish writing it.
annekwa. that’s her name: annekwa. “there’s a story behind that name,” i said. “all african names have a story behind them,” she laughed, “and if we had time, i’d tell you this one.”
guess i’ll just have to make something up when i finally get around to that writing. and while i’m at it, i think i’ll write pleasant smiles on the tsa’ers.
and maybe i’ll give them manners, too.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!