Friday, September 21, 2001

Today at work, things were a little tense and I may have inadvertently taken it out on an innocent. This person drove in to possibly buy one of our used medicars. I was stuck in the middle of a very long day as the salesman. Let me preface this with the fact that I’m very uncomfortable selling anything with hundreds of thousands of miles on it to some unsuspecting sap who wants to cart his wife around. I was doing my best to point him at the rig and run but he kept asking me questions. I answered as best as I could but tried to excuse myself because I had a lot to do. That’s when he started to get shitty. He proceeded to get loud about the guy on the phone who told him that we had vans for sale that would fit in his garage. Now I have put a few of these gems in castle stupidtom’s spacious single car garage with minimal sucking in of my gut so I know it can be done. He then tells me that he measured his garage door and it was six foot three inches off the ground. I let that hang because I didn’t believe him. He kept raising his voice about the people here wasting his time and he asked the rhetorical question that was both of our mistakes. He said, “What am I supposed to do now?” I told him that it sounded like he needed something more along the lines of a clown car that he could use to tow a wheel chair. Mean, yes. Deserved, maybe. Made me feel better, definitely. It turns out that I was absent on a number of critical days during my formal education. I missed the day that guaranteed I would like everyone I would ever work with, and I was also absent on everything always works out in my favor day. I think I’m lucky because I go into every situation expecting the worst and anything above that is a bonus. My only regret is that I wrecked someone’s day just because I was having a bad one. That is just plain wrong and I want to change that about myself in the worst way. Therefore, if you’re out there wants to but a brand new vehicle for no money that will fit in your pint sized garage guy, I am truly sorry. 12:00:00 AM    says you