Last Saturday we were on our way home from running errands, and we pulled up to a four way stop. Standing directly to my right on the sidewalk was a high school age girl holding a sign that read:
"Car Wash! Honk If You Love Jesus!"
Since I was eye level with this girl, and I'm not a rude person by nature, I smiled at her. A big "hey, you're having a car wash! I'm not religious, but that doesn't matter because you're another human being and you're standing right there and I'm in a great mood!" smile.
And you know what? That girl SCOWLED at me. She gave me a heathen beat down via facial expression. How she knew I was a heathen, I do not know. (She could not yet see my Coexist bumper sticker, I am certain). Why she chose to use all those tricky frown muscles instead of the easy smile ones, I can't begin to guess. All I know is that she made a deliberate choice to be downright rude to a complete stranger.
So, to you, vinegar faced high school chick: Open your horizons and try smiling back once in a while.
I'm pretty sure it's what Jesus would do.
7/13/11
7/7/11
Stupid+Cheap=Stupidcheap
Good advice for clothing and hookers. Yes, I went there. |
- Stupidcheap is buying this form fitting bridesmaid dress just because of it's super low price, and thinking that it could possibly look good on you two months post-pregnancy. News flash: it won't. Or as your husband will say, "That's not something Spanx can fix".
- Stupidcheap is then having to buy a new full price bridesmaid dress to replace the one you bought when trying to be thrifty.
- Stupidcheap is putting two loads of wet laundry in the dryer to "save money", resulting in $45 of new parts and three hours of your (super happy) husband's time when the dryer breaks.
- Stupidcheap is mixing water with half the recommended amount of Round Up in the sprayer, and then having to spray four separate times to actually kill the weeds.
- Stupidcheap is going with a new, untested company to save $12 on a job, and then paying $250 to fix what the new company screws up.
- Stupidcheap is when you buy a bottle of wine for $1.97 and spend the next day with a hangover.
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