Luverly photos. I can't wait to see how pictures of your parrots look, once you get the hang of it. Hinty hint. :>
Included at no additional charge, a mini-rant: At work, I was often "she who puts shit together" because I a) have a fair amount of downtime between bouts of manning (har!) the register, b) have plenty of out-of-customers'-immediate-path-of-travel floor space, and c) am good at it, and... yeah, I really enjoy it. It's fun! Display racks, barbeques, patio furniture, wheelbarrows, garden carts, anything that needs a display model, I've probably built one. Anyway, tinkering away near my register, I can't tell you the number of times random customers of all ages, genders, and apparent cultural backgrounds have wandered up to me and said something like "isn't there a man in the store who can do that?"
I can usually manage a "yes, but it's his day off" or "no, we had to fire all the men, due to budget constraints" with a smile and a chuckle which I hope doesn't sound too pitying. People often just don't think about what they say.
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Date: 2009-03-04 02:21 am (UTC)Included at no additional charge, a mini-rant: At work, I was often "she who puts shit together" because I a) have a fair amount of downtime between bouts of manning (har!) the register, b) have plenty of out-of-customers'-immediate-path-of-travel floor space, and c) am good at it, and... yeah, I really enjoy it. It's fun! Display racks, barbeques, patio furniture, wheelbarrows, garden carts, anything that needs a display model, I've probably built one. Anyway, tinkering away near my register, I can't tell you the number of times random customers of all ages, genders, and apparent cultural backgrounds have wandered up to me and said something like "isn't there a man in the store who can do that?"
I can usually manage a "yes, but it's his day off" or "no, we had to fire all the men, due to budget constraints" with a smile and a chuckle which I hope doesn't sound too pitying. People often just don't think about what they say.