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by wlkthruthesky from Glendale, Az.

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Happiness is: Being walled in...
Jul 21, 2008 | 1:30 PM
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 My wife works in retail in the Phoenix area. Since she has been doing that I have wondered many times what could be the reason that so many of the customers she deals with seem to be so unhappy. Many times customers even seem to go out of their way to approach my wife, or others she works with, just to insult them.

 My wife is a beautiful, kind lady. She works in a cometics area most of the time. Yesterday a customer actually walked up to my wife to tell her, "You would think this place would put someone in the cosmetics area that was at least half way pretty."  It was not a joke.  Insulting someone does not even seem to faze some people. Many seem to enjoy doing it. This is not unusual behavior! Customers insult or engage my wife, and others that she works with, into arguments many times a day. Many times my wife has come home from work sad and upset from the way people treat each other. Why do so many people seem to enjoy causing unhappiness for people they come into contact with? Maybe people just do not realize how they cause others to feel.

 I have thought many times that part of the reason could be that so many people living in the area are walled in.  There are no neighbors, or none that we know because just like us, they too want little contact with people. They too are walled in.

 People seem to not know how to be freindly any more. People want so little contact with even their own neighbors that living behind our safe little walls makes so many seem to be happily unhappy. Even if my wife was not as pretty as she is what would possess someone to aproach her at work only to stab an insult into her heart?  C'mon people. Why are so many of us so unkind? What happened to being good to each other?  My wife is very classy, and very polite. She is not allowed to engage customers, even those that enjoy tossing insults her way. Does this give wacko people some sort of thrill? Do the walls we all live behind cause us to not consider how we make people we come into contact with feel?

 How many people reading this would like to come on a journey with me? I would like to experiment with this. I would like to see what the trill is that comes from being an a-hole. On our journey maybe we'll walk around downtown going up into high rise buildings to go from office to office. We'll walk up to people sitting behind desks, give them a dirty look, insult them, and flip them off, then just walk out leaving them to wonder the same things I wonder. Has everyone forgetten that we are all people? What do the walls have to do with how we behave?  Is it the walls that cause us to have forgotten how to be kind?

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dhw1949 read my blog
Jul 21, 2008 | 6:45 PM

What happened to your wife is just wrong. I would revel in giving that person a wall-to-wall counselling session until they realized the error of their ways.
thebritishchick read my blog view my photos
Jul 21, 2008 | 10:51 PM

I too work in retail and there are so many rude obnoxious people out there, I believe that people in retail are easy targets, because as you said they cannot engage in the actions of people like that, I have dealt with many people like that in customer service and being a supervisor I get the brunt of it. Some want something for nothing, some just want to argue, I just politely say 'Sir, Maam I am trying to help you, I cannot help you until you calm down' (my accent normally throws them and they ask where I am from, then they forget what they were being so nasty about LOLOLOL), at the end of the day its them who has to live with themselves and its just a few mins out of a week, try to laugh it off. What they said to your wife is plain nasty and uncalled for!!! It could be jealousy too!! There is something really missing in peoples lives to have to stoop so low!!! I feel for your wife and sorry she went through that, I know how she feels.
Remington700
Jul 22, 2008 | 6:42 AM

It's a shame that your wife has to deal with these kind of twits, it sounds a if even if she could respond she wouldn't,(what she has is called class) a lot has to do with how these people were raised.
Tell your wife, as she works in the cosmetic biz. that she can help their looks but she cant fix stupid.
splat read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 7:14 AM

Remington made a good point. It has to do with class. Too bad she couldn't have come back with the response, "Yeah, and we have to deal with customers who have no class."

Tell your wife not all customers are obnoxious idiots and appreciate her knowledge and kindness when we shop.
NA2US read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 7:43 AM

brit you are right there is generally some reason these people are nasty,but at my age I would have handed her a bar of soap and asked her to use it maybe it would wash the nastiness from her mouth :)
Tell your wife these people are not worthy of her grace , brush it off, she sounds like she is one heck of a nice lady ESPECIALLY Since she kept her cool.Don't let these types of people put you down.
NA2US read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 7:48 AM

Have to tell you this one,I worked in the produce dept,at Albie's I was just about finished this man came up to me with a cart proceeded to tell me to MOVE,as I was attempting to move out of his way HE SLAMMED into mine hit an aisle knocking everything off,I asked him with a smile why he was so rude,he ask me for my name so he could report me to the store manager ,gave him my name told him exactly where he could find the manager!They found out WHO THE RUDE ONE WAS QUICKLY!
AND IT WASN'T ME!
jmmy read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 9:49 AM

My dad always told me that if I did not have anything good to say to keep my mouth shut. We live in such an immoral society and a lot of television shows spew forth negatives that it is no wonder there is such filth out there. It takes a real effort to remain positive and I feel sorry for your wife and others like her who has to listen to this BLEEP.
Tazaz
Jul 22, 2008 | 1:06 PM

The same things happen at the Arrowhead Mall only this is groups of teens and younger who roam the mall and loll around on furniture and they pick out people to insult. I always see security in the mall walking around but if you are shopping you see these same thugs going from store to store and the security never seems to notice.

The last time that I was in the mall area, some young boys were yelling and making faces at the clerks and they ran into the Sleep Number Store and jumped on the beds and then ran out again. Why aren't these young hoodlums rounded up with a call to their parents to come and get them?? The mall security certainly were not earning their pay when I was there.
wlkthruthesky read my blog view my photos
Jul 22, 2008 | 1:51 PM

There was once a time when Parents were allowed to teach children respect as they grew. The ways of that type of parenting have changed into sendin the kid to their room where they play with their gadgets, or games, or sit online without a thought in the world of the disrespect they show so readily. Their bad behavior is rewarded by allowing them to have fun after behaving badly. Parents are so envolved in other things in life that they do not even seem to realize they encorage bad behavior by not disciplining the children they raise.

There are also the type of parents out there that believe the little hoodlems they raise can do no wrong. Some of those children are still little kids, others are grown. They continue to disrespect anyone they come into contact with without fear of consequence because to them there is none. They themselfs however demand the respect they refuse to give. This shows that they know what respect is, they just need to learn that to get respect respect must be given as well.
RDJVZ read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 1:55 PM

I think it's a shame when someone can't do their job without being harassed. It doesn't have anything to do with walls or TV, it has to do with up bringing.
JustMePA read my blog view my photos
Jul 22, 2008 | 4:59 PM

There are many A-holes out there my only objection to your plan is why do it to people who you don't know, that haven’t done anything that you know of?
Aren’t you being exactly what you’re complaining about if you do that? Now if it's someone that you know has been a rude dips h i t well have at it.
mowry602 read my blog
Jul 22, 2008 | 7:17 PM

If everyone lived by the Golden Rule, the world would be a much better place.

Do unto others as you would have done onto yourself!!

When I come across someone who is just sh**ty with people, I often wonder: Dont these people realize that they get back what they give out??? The ruder (word?) and sh**tier to people you are, the ruder and sh**tier people will be to you!!

Karma.... ain't she a b*tch!! :)
TweetyNMe read my blog view my photos
Jul 23, 2008 | 10:48 AM

It stinks when you encounter rude people. You have to pity the people that are unhappy and miserable with themselves and feel the need to lash out.

I have a neighbor that swipes at people behind their backs. The children seem to enjoy repeating what they hear, and they do drop some jaw dropping bombs. They're well on their way to believing it's okay to be hateful and mean. Makes me wonder what their personalities will be like in 10 years.
azslammer1
Jul 23, 2008 | 1:56 PM

that reminds me of the time I worked in a sams club out there in scottsdale. I worked in the produce department and was very proud of how myself and my coworker "Frank" kept the place in top notch condition. UNTIL one day Fred Goldman form that OJ killings came into our store. this man walked around like he was some celebrity or he was better than everyone else, well he came back to our department and started to rant about our products are inferior to what he was used to in california,and more expensive then he was used to paying,and the way our uniforms looked. I mean this man was just totally offended with everything that was there. right then my friend Frank looked at me and said like do you believe thsi guy? I turned around and with a totally straight face looking him in his eyes said"Well we got the freshest O>J> around maybe he try some"!!! well this man had a coronary right there!!!! started yelling about "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM?" what a scene i told my supervisor I had no idea waho this man was!!!! He called the law and was running up and down aisles! it was nuckin futs!!!!
thebritishchick read my blog view my photos
Jul 24, 2008 | 1:43 PM

OMG LOL slammer!! the times I have wanted to make a wise crack at some obnoxious fool, but the times I have bitten my tongue!! Nice one!! LOLOLOLOL Then you could have added that the best oranges come from california and make the best OJ maybe he could bring some back from his next trip for you!!! Tasteless I know but oh well what goes around comes around and I hate snobs!!
azslammer1
Jul 24, 2008 | 4:14 PM

btw britishchick my ex wife worked for a doctors office out there and he was a patiet of theirs back in 1999,she told me he would always ask anyone there if they knew who he was,what a nutjob! now he's a victims advocate in scottsdaleJUST what the people need a true nut helping them out! also my supervisor at sams called me and my friend to his office I thought that we were toast,but he was just rolling on the floor laughing and told me I got a lotta nerve to say something like that and he was glad this idiot wasn't going to come back there to shop cause all he did was put people down and complain about everything!!
thebritishchick read my blog view my photos
Jul 25, 2008 | 11:16 AM

Ahhhh so he was using his 'situation' not because he was grieving for his family but wanting the fame instead?!?!?! What a loser!! Even if I did know who he was I would have said no I have no idea never seen or heard of you LOLOLOLOL Then watch him spit bricks hahaha!
azslammer1
Jul 25, 2008 | 6:20 PM

britishchick that is what i did -pretend that i had no clue of who he was!I truly think that people like that crawl up the walls when they are not acknowledged! I love it !!!!!
azslammer1
Jul 25, 2008 | 6:23 PM

Also i don't know if they still make you check your gun at cashiers desk in the supermarkets anymore but when i used to go to Smitty's at 32nd and bell they did.with all thats happening now i would have shot someone in self defense already!!!!
azslammer1
Jul 25, 2008 | 6:26 PM

BTW,WLK did you ever deliver produce to Fleming Foods? I worked there for years til they shut down and went out of business!!! you look familiar.
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I'm a small business owner within the Phoenix area. My business involves a great deal of travel. I read these blogs hoping to get an idea of some of the news that is missed while I am traveling throughout the country.

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