An amusing conversation
Saturday, after work, I was waiting outside the store for my mom to pick me up (I decided to kill some time by visiting my mom and sister, to avoid going home and listening to our asshole neighbours), and this girl, who I'll call A, who works at the store beside my old toy store, walked by. We started talking, and I told her that this is where I work now. She then asked what had happened at my old store, and I said something along the lines of, "Oh, you didn't hear, yet?" and she said, in a serious, but not expecting it to be true, tone, "Was it because Beth is a bitch?" "Exactly," I replied. It turns out that she had come to that conclusion on her own; no one had told her stories.
She said that she had never really liked Beth because she thought that she was phony (very true), that she had done some un-neighbourly things, etc. Also, she said that on several occasions, she had overheard Beth speak in a rude, and condescending manner to her employees. One of the major reasons why Beth is such a bitch is because she always talks down to her employees, and if A has overheard her, I'm sure other customers have too.
Because she had Beth's bitchy personality down so perfectly, I had to ask her again if it was true that none of Beth's employees, including her ex-boyfriend, who Beth treated like crap, had said anything. She said "You know what [name of ex-boyfriend] is like; he'd never say anything. Both you and [ex-boyfriend] were always very good at not saying anything." We both agreed that it would have been inappropriate for her, or for us, to have said anything, especially if we did not know how the other felt, but now, it doesn't matter.
I found her insights of Beth's personality very interesting. If A, as a customer/person who works in the area, has independently come to the conclusion that Beth is a bitch, then I'm sure she isn't the only one.
Speaking about A, it's a really amusing, and weird, story, about how we got to know each other. I had always seen A in the neighbourhood-she lived in the area, and she worked in one of the local stores, the same store she works at now (this was even before the toy store I worked at opened up). I didn't know her name or anything about her. She was just "the girl who works at [name of store]." I had nothing against her, as I didn't know her.
But one day, and this may even have been ten years ago, my sister, brother, and I were walking home after doing some shopping, and A was about a block behind us, heading in the same direction. I think my brother may have been a few feet ahead of my sister and me, and he turned around to look at us or say something. Then a minute later, A turned around a corner, so she was not within sight, and we hear her yell at us, "What the fuck is your problem?!" We were completely baffled, as we had not done or said anything. We were thinking of reasons for her strange behaviour, and concluded that maybe she thought my brother had given her a rude look.
Anyway, that was that. As the years went by, we'd see each other around the neighbourhood, but never acknowledged each other, even though we worked at neighbouring stores. But several years after the incident (probably 4 years ago), my mom, sister, and I were out walking, doing some errands or something (I don't want to say the name of the street, just to be on the safe side, but anyone who knows me will know the area). We had stopped just outside of the video store, and my sister and I saw A with a friend inside. My sister said, in a light-hearted tone, "Oh, there's that bitch!". My sister and I didn't dislike her or have anything against A, and she only used "bitch" to sum up that weird incident; we didn't actually think she was a bitch.
Anyway, it turned out that A remembered that day, as well. A had apparently seen us outside of the video store, and must have said something similar to her friend, because her friend came out, dragging a reluctant A behind her, and said to us "Why do you guys hate my friend so much?" My sister and I said something along the lines of, "We don't hate her-we don't even know her. There was that weird incident..."
A immediately knew what we were talking about, and we explained to each other our sides of the story. Both of us, years ago, had already come to the conclusion that it had been a misinterpretation of actions, and that's why we never hated each other, but we had never felt comfortable approaching each other, because there was still that weirdness. We all had a good laugh about how this stupid little thing had dragged on for years, and introduced ourselves. We were all relieved that we didn't have that weirdness hanging over us. What surprised me was that A had also remembered it. It's funny how things like that happen. What a Seinfeld situation.
She said that she had never really liked Beth because she thought that she was phony (very true), that she had done some un-neighbourly things, etc. Also, she said that on several occasions, she had overheard Beth speak in a rude, and condescending manner to her employees. One of the major reasons why Beth is such a bitch is because she always talks down to her employees, and if A has overheard her, I'm sure other customers have too.
Because she had Beth's bitchy personality down so perfectly, I had to ask her again if it was true that none of Beth's employees, including her ex-boyfriend, who Beth treated like crap, had said anything. She said "You know what [name of ex-boyfriend] is like; he'd never say anything. Both you and [ex-boyfriend] were always very good at not saying anything." We both agreed that it would have been inappropriate for her, or for us, to have said anything, especially if we did not know how the other felt, but now, it doesn't matter.
I found her insights of Beth's personality very interesting. If A, as a customer/person who works in the area, has independently come to the conclusion that Beth is a bitch, then I'm sure she isn't the only one.
Speaking about A, it's a really amusing, and weird, story, about how we got to know each other. I had always seen A in the neighbourhood-she lived in the area, and she worked in one of the local stores, the same store she works at now (this was even before the toy store I worked at opened up). I didn't know her name or anything about her. She was just "the girl who works at [name of store]." I had nothing against her, as I didn't know her.
But one day, and this may even have been ten years ago, my sister, brother, and I were walking home after doing some shopping, and A was about a block behind us, heading in the same direction. I think my brother may have been a few feet ahead of my sister and me, and he turned around to look at us or say something. Then a minute later, A turned around a corner, so she was not within sight, and we hear her yell at us, "What the fuck is your problem?!" We were completely baffled, as we had not done or said anything. We were thinking of reasons for her strange behaviour, and concluded that maybe she thought my brother had given her a rude look.
Anyway, that was that. As the years went by, we'd see each other around the neighbourhood, but never acknowledged each other, even though we worked at neighbouring stores. But several years after the incident (probably 4 years ago), my mom, sister, and I were out walking, doing some errands or something (I don't want to say the name of the street, just to be on the safe side, but anyone who knows me will know the area). We had stopped just outside of the video store, and my sister and I saw A with a friend inside. My sister said, in a light-hearted tone, "Oh, there's that bitch!". My sister and I didn't dislike her or have anything against A, and she only used "bitch" to sum up that weird incident; we didn't actually think she was a bitch.
Anyway, it turned out that A remembered that day, as well. A had apparently seen us outside of the video store, and must have said something similar to her friend, because her friend came out, dragging a reluctant A behind her, and said to us "Why do you guys hate my friend so much?" My sister and I said something along the lines of, "We don't hate her-we don't even know her. There was that weird incident..."
A immediately knew what we were talking about, and we explained to each other our sides of the story. Both of us, years ago, had already come to the conclusion that it had been a misinterpretation of actions, and that's why we never hated each other, but we had never felt comfortable approaching each other, because there was still that weirdness. We all had a good laugh about how this stupid little thing had dragged on for years, and introduced ourselves. We were all relieved that we didn't have that weirdness hanging over us. What surprised me was that A had also remembered it. It's funny how things like that happen. What a Seinfeld situation.