Go Ahead and Rant!
I realize my blog is about giving positive messages and good vibes, but I also believe life is about balance.
We all have good days and not so good days.
We can’t be Susie Sunshine all the time, sometimes we are Ranty Ruth.
And Ranty Ruth is getting the spot light this week.
I’ve had two things lately that made me shake my head and realize I’m in old lady rant mode some days…ok most days lately.
You will know you are entering this stage when you say things like…
*Remember when stores employed sales people to help customers.
*Remember when office workers dressed up to go to work ( I saw a medical secretary wearing a striped baseball shirt and jeans the other day, it wasn’t casual Friday).
*Years ago we didn’t have to bag our own groceries. Hell’s bells, now I have to check out my own groceries.
*And I talk out loud to myself more now.
Not like…”Where did I put my phone?”
But things like…”What do I feel like for lunch?” as I’m standing in front of the open fridge.
And of course I answer myself, because it would be rude not to!
“Yogurt and a banana it is”
And speaking of the phone, we never had the fear of losing our phone as it was attached to the wall! With five miles of cord so you could still wander around the house and get things done while chatting on the phone.
Ok putting the train back on the track.
The two things I ranted about lately.
Number 1
I protested the grocery self check out for quite a while by not using it, and being stubborn I stood in the long lines with the rest of the old people, until it wore me down and I said ok, I’ll check out my own few groceries.
Now one day I came to the end of scanning and a new screen popped up. I stood there reading it and a roaming self help clerk (there was actual help) came along and said, “They want you to rate your experience today”
Now here is where Ranty Ruth comes in. There is no one around to help customers on the floor, and I checked out my own groceries??!!
So what am I rating?
She just walked away.
So being sarcastic and talking aloud I said, “Well I did a very good job bagging my groceries and I was fast today, so I give myself a four star rating…the attitude could be better, for a five star! And at that I told myself to haul my butt out of the store.
Number 2
Same day….I was in the only department store we have around here now, to buy new bloomers (that’s underwear for the youngin’s reading this in case you thought I was buying flowers).
I had questions about styles, but of course there were no sales clerks within a mile.
Now while I wandered looking at the racks, a customer about my age was helping an older women with her bloomer questions. Must have been seniors discount day? Then as she walked past the change room, another older woman asked her for help! And she did help, she walked past me and I said to her “You’re hired!” She laughed and walked to the far end of the department to get what the woman asked for!
Still no sales clerk in sight. Ranty Ruth is getting restless.
Soon after, the actual store clerk wandered into the area. She asked if I was ready to check out, I asked my bloomer style questions. She didn’t know the answer, geez a loo!!
So off I go to pay.
She does her thing ringing me through the cash and asks me…”Do you want a bag for 25 cents?”
Now I’m about to stroke out and Ranty Ruth is surfacing again today. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, for the price I’m paying for all this underwear I should have been given a free bag for gawd’s sake!!
Out of stubbornness, but nicely I tell her no. It’s not her fault stores are greedy in the guise of saving trees or plastic.
So there I am walking through the store with two handfuls of bloomers, waving them around in the air like a cheerleader…with the receipt, as I walk out of the store, so security doesn’t get me for stealing.
I’m so glad I helped save the planet by not getting a bag, yet I left with a receipt a mile and a half long!
Ranty Ruth can’t handle that logic today.
Some days it’s best to just stay home and wear old bloomers.
Life Experience Wisdom
* Rant when you need to, get it out of your system, you’ll feel better.
* Some days you will be Susie Sunshine and others days Ranty Ruth comes out to play. It’s all about balance and that’s ok.
* Let it happen and your ship will right itself.
That’s all for this week, back to the positive vibes next week…I hope!
Cheers til next week,
Grace
My Motto
When life throws baseball size lemons at you, that smack you upside the head, stomp on those damn things and make yourself a cocktail!
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