I have been burning my candle at both ends lately. Tonight is my first night back to my hotel room at a reasonable hour. It has been an insanely busy few days. We were going to open Thanksgiving night, but there was too much prep work to be done. My work day for Black Friday went from 7pm on Thanksgiving till about 10:45 am. I returned back to work at 6pm to close. We left the store around 10:30 or so & got back to the hotel around midnight after a stop to Walmart.
Tonight we left around 7pm & went to dinner. We sat at the bar where we talked sports and life and love with our very cool bartender. While discussing relationships he’d mentioned the value of being humble. For the benefit of being thankful for what you have without putting on airs or false pretenses.
His story? A couple of years ago he went to a bar in a bigger city with some friends. There was a beautiful woman sitting at the bar, so he thought he’d say hello. He walked up to her & here’s what happened.
Bartender: Hi there!
Girl: (looks over haughtily) Make and model of your car?
Bartender: (looks at her in disbelief, then sarcasm) 1978 Pinto
Girl…turns away.
Really? How utterly pretentious and superficial! Unreal. All she cared about was money. She deserved the lying response he concocted after her disrespect. It may explain why he told me he was glad to have found an amazing person… Don’t get me wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting financial security or maybe an equal partner, but any number of things… But not like that! No wonder he said he wasn’t interested in “rookie camp”.
So tell me, folks, have you ever refused talking to someone based on something superficial? If so, tell, tell! When meeting someone new, what things have intrigued you enough to give a stranger a chance in the past? What things have you heard people verbally or theoretically snoop into at bars or clubs or restaurants that could be found offensive by the recipient? What things do you think are important to a relationship?
The area is beautiful out here! When I drive the freeway, I can’t believe that just looking across has me looking at Mexico. I am really enjoying those mountains! I promise, pictures will eventually be posted.
I do miss having time to write…I need to make tome to do what I love. If I’m mildly incoherent, please excuse me. I’m worn out!
Good Night!
theinnerwildkat 
Take care. Don’t want our favorite blogger to feel stressed. LOL.
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Aww! Thanks. 🙂
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That’s the most superficial and discourteous and stupid thing I’ve heard in a long time… Reminds me of this really cool ballad written by Friedrich Schiller (famous German writer) in 1797, called “Der Handschuh” (The Glove). You can find a translation here: http://www.has.vcu.edu/for/schiller/handschuh_dual.html
I taught a literature project on this once, we asked the kids to transform it into a modern story and the results were awesome, they really got the meaning of it and they were so creative!
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Well, you know my love for ballads, so I can’t wait to check it out! And yeah…that some woman could say something like that to a complete stranger blew my mind! Talk about full of yourself!
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I’m from the era of Boogie Nights, Saturday Night Fever and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. It was a blast and by the grace of God I avoided anything more serious than a few broken hearts. The lesson I learned was that I wasn’t going to find Mr. Forever in a disco. I couldn’t trust my intuitions when they were distracted by booze and loud music, nor would that guy I met be what he advertised when it got down to the boring stuff. But judging people superficially was never one of my sins. I danced with everyone.
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Aww! I’m a dance with everyone person, too… Of course now I have an image of you in a skin tight gold outfit with big hair and hoop earrings dancing to “The Funk”. 🙂
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Actually I did have a gold lame dress – and you thought you were being funny!
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Ha! I love it! Did you have the big hair going on, too?
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I’ve had short hair most of my life, but I teased it out as big as it would go.
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I ratted out my hair once. I have always had long, long hair. I was Tina Turner for Halloween that year, complete with the short pleather skirt.
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Jeez, you must be exhausted!
Wow, how rude of that woman to ask that straight up. I wouldn’t want to associate with people like that. She obviously doesn’t believe in taking time to get to know a person for what they have inside. Oh well, that’s a shame for her.
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It really was, because he seemed like a really cool person. Her loss. Now he’s with a doctor of pharmacology. 😀
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I know there are tons of people like that in this world, but it’s sad. I could never shun a person that way! I’ve always made conversation when approached. If I found the person and I just didn’t click, there was always a nice way of putting it.
Keep that midnight oil burning, but try not to burn it out there Kitt 🙂
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Girl, last night was my first decent night’s sleep. It felt amazing!
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Yay!!
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LOL! It might have been that glass of wine I had….
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Keep the faith, Kitt. January will come…:)
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🙂 Thanks, Karen. Fortunately, this isn’t a permanent thing. In fact, I should only be doing this for a couple more weeks. Then it’s back to writing on a permanent basis.
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The gal in the bar? shallow. yikes….her self esteem must’ve been non-existent to ask a question like that.
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I could not agree more. Shallow doesn’t even begin to cover it!
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well she’s lucky that he was a decent fella…some guys would’ve taken that the wrong way 😦
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Truly! Of course once he realized all she cared about was the amount of money in his bank account he was smart to get sarcastic & lie to her about the make & model of his car.
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I noticed! smart guy. She deserved no less!
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Absolutely.
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