A co-worker came up to me yesterday & insulted me for 10 mins. My initial reaction was to be overly nice due to my shock & now I’m wishing I would’ve smacked him. Conversation went as follows:
Him: MyLyn, if you wanted a black car why didn’t you just buy one?
Me: Excuse me?
Him: Have you EVER washed your car?
Me: silence/shock
Him: I think the way a person takes care of their cars show what kind of person they are. It makes you look really irresponsible, I mean, I’ve never seen your car washed!
Of course I think of all the right things to say after the matter. I wish I would have immediately thought to defend myself instead of joking with him. How dare you call me irresponsible?! & to my defense we HAVE washed the car & have kept the inside quite clean. True it hasn’t been washed since school started but excuse me for not having time to wash my car. I have 2 jobs, a full school schedule, a husband (who also has school & a job & whom I share the one car with), a house to clean, a sunday class to teach & a baby growing inside me! It’s not irresponsibility, it’s lack of time. Plus it’s only been 2 months since it’s been washed! Out of spite I’m going to leave it unwashed for at least another month. It was either that or write something like, “screw you.” on his windshield. I’m thinking the first is more Christlike.
Has anyone ever said something way out of line to you? I want to hear about it. It might make me feel better. 
6 Comments
October 2, 2008 at 7:23 pm
OH MyLyn! That is ho-larious! Sorry, that was so rude of HIM to say that, but man I wish you would have said what you wanted to say…he SO needed to hear it. What a bum!
Yeah, a lady at my work called for med records, well demanded records that I didn’t have but could get within the day. She would have nothing of it! I told her it WOULD be done, she said no, it WILL be done and it WILL be done NOW! I sat there trying to smooth stuff over…she finally asked to speak to my boss! POOP HEAD! My boss gave told her off, I later thought up many ways to kill her with my words but I was glad my boss had the skills to say it at the right moment!
October 2, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Its times like this when you set the Christlike actions aside and write “screw you” on his car. In paint, the kind thats REALLY hard to wash off. I can’t think of time when someone verbally insulted me like that but there are PLENTY of times I wish I could go back and re-do my life.
Story 1: ex boyfriend (that was very hard to get over and wasn’t completely at this time) broke up with me for lame reasons. Hadn’t talked to him in months. He gets engaged and decided to call me up and tell me about it. WHY? I don’t know. It made me very angry and confused. Did I tell him that? No, I said “Oh yeah! how exciting… blah!” I wish I could go back and ask him why in the hell he was calling and telling me? We don’t talk! dumb
Story 2: Trying to save money so I make the mistake of going to the Paul Mitchell Hair School to get my hair done. 4 hours, 1 bad mushroom head and worst steam burn of my life(!!!!) later I still tip her! Why can’t I be mean and leave her a nickel. Thats much more insulting than no tip.
So don’t make the same mistakes I did. Be mean, it will be worth it in the end.
October 2, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I just realized how long that was. I didn’t just comment on your page.. I posted my own post. Sorry.
October 3, 2008 at 7:02 am
I don’t think you needed to say anything. That guy clearly has his own problems and definitely needs to learn some manners. My response is usually to just stare at them in a disapproving way. They usually get very uncomfortable and go away, leaving me in peace. Silence is my favorite weapon; it’s my Administrative Assistant Superpower.
Someone who washes his car more than once a month seems like he would have some sort of unnatural attachment to his car or an obsessive compulsive disorder. It’s just a car dude. It gets you where your going and it isn’t the most important thing in your life. I’d say you have your priorities right and that guy has a few things to learn about life. Things you already know.
Also, you live in a desert! There’s dust. Lot’s of it! I wash my car once in the summer here and let the rain clean it the rest of the time. In the winter I wash it more because of the salt.
October 4, 2008 at 11:56 am
That is the most insane story I have ever heard. Well not really cuz people are idiots and say the stupidest things! I agree with everyone above, if you are so worried about having a clean car all the time maybe you need a life, or I wish I had that life. Oh and my story of people saying something so out of line…..well after I read Mia’s I thought of a million of stupid people that would freak out at me on the phone at my old job, but the best one yet happend when I was prego. I ran into an old friend and I am weird and probably rude and kinda dodge people sometimes and don’t stop and talk but I decided I should that was a mistake cuz her sister was with her and was like oh you’re having a baby congrats, then goes on to question me like she’s my mother, she says so are you going to work, I say no, she says is your husband still going to school, I say yes, she says are you going to go to school, I say yes she says wow isn’t that going to be hard going to school and only one of you working, how are you going to do it, blah blah blah…..I finally just looked at her and said we got it under control we’ll be fine. But as I walked off I was like are you kidding me who does that. Not to mention that she is not married so it wasn’t like she was talking from experience. I just decided we live in a world where if you say ya when I have kids I’m going to put them in day care and work 5 jobs so I drive my nice BMW and wash it twice a day everyone goes oh ya that’s totally what I would do too……..;) wow that was long but the world is vain and everyone worries much more about the unimportant things like clean cars if you ask me. That really got me going if you can’t tell.
October 4, 2008 at 11:32 pm
First off…LOL! The nerve!
One time i had Taya with me in a store and the cashier kept staring at her. I had her hair in a cute little ponytail and the lady said to Taya: “your poor head, does mommy pull your hair just to dress you up?, well i guess pain is beauty huh….”
Uh! Excuse me? It was a barret not an elastic, it didnt pull her hair, and it was so cute! Gosh, some people…