I could have been sucky...

[reformedwaitress]

but I don't have the energy. The drive thru guy at my local chicken place (think letters) should be glad.

So I'm sick. Have been fighting it for about two weeks (allergies weakened my immune system) and actually got sick sick this weekend (you know, all the muscles hurt, exhausted, trying to sneeze my brains out and, as of last night, running a slight fever). I've been home at Momma's since Friday and called out today cause I was NOT driving like this and really didn't feel like working. Work was cool with this.

All this was said to say, know what? I look pretty bad. I'm okay with this, I know this, I'm sick -- looking rough comes with the territory.

So I sleep for like twelve hours last night and decide a bit ago that I'm hungry. I don't feel like standing long enough to do any cooking. So I'll go get something. I don't want to go in anywhere, so I go through the drive thru at the chicken place, cause mashed potatos are a comfort food of mine and I can eat them and be fine even when I can't keep anything else down.

So I drive over there (still in my pajamas cause, well, I don't care enough to care) and I order my large potatos (sounding pretty bad I'm sure) and pull up to the window. The guy opens it to take my money and what's the first thing he says?

"Holy h*ll you look like death warmed over, girl! You shouldn't thrust that on people!"

I'm sure I just stared at him a moment and handed him my money and then just got my food and drove off. I don't have the energy to fight with someone today.

But really. If someone looks that bad they're probably sick or there's a damn good reason. Who would really SAY something like that to someone!

That kinda hurt.

[Anakah]

Wow, I'd be fired over something like that. You NEVER say that to a customer! If anything he should've kept his big mouth shut. What a jerk! I'd call and complain later.

[BookstoreEscapee]

OK, the first part of his sentence wasn't sooo bad; if he had just said "I hope you feel better" instead of "you shouldn't thrust that on people" (?!) it could have had a totally different ending...

When I was in college I had a really bad cold and called to tell them I couldn't work (I worked with food, in our little campus place) and the manager said I had to try to find someone to cover me. I didn't have the phone list, so I went in to get it after my class, and she took one look at me and said, never mind, just go home.

RW, I hope you are feeling better tonight hugs and tissues to you.

[wagegoth]

I really doubt he would have said something like that to a man. He sounds like one of those guys who think they have the right to comment on any woman's appearance. The same kind of guy who tells a woman, a complete stranger, to "Smile."

I'm old enough that comments like that get the standard, "Who the h**l are you?" response. If I'm in a better mood, I'll say, "Do I know you?" Sometimes it's just a simple, "What the f**k?"

Although, if I'm at work, I'll just mumble, "Migraine," and raise my slightly teary eyes. They usually apologize, mutter sympathetic things, and leave. I'm really good at crying on demand.

[Bella_Vixen]

I would have (fake) coughed on the money before I handed it to him.

[iradney]

*HUGS* there there RW. We all know there's no way you can look horrible - just a littleless radiant and beautiful!
As for the shmuck in the drive through - what, he's never been ill? he's never had to make a food run? He must be the healthiest man in the world!

[Jester]

The guy opens it to take my money and what's the first thing he says?

"Holy h*ll you look like death warmed over, girl! You shouldn't thrust that on people!"

RW actually sent me a text message right after this happened. And I quote:

"Apparently I look like "death warmed over." Makes me feel real great. Stupid drive through person. You don't tell someone that!"

Even through text message her annoyance came through quite plainly.

The same kind of guy who tells a woman, a complete stranger, to "Smile."

Um, hi there. That would be me. I do that all the time to random people, of both genders, whatever their mood.

But then, I AM a jester, so maybe it's alright when I do it. Not sure what Miss Manners says on that one.

[blas]

I would have cursed up a storm at that little prick. What NERVE! Those are things you should keep to yourself.

The last thing an ill person wants to hear is how horrible they look. Everyone looks pale and sick when they are feeling under the weather.

I would have probably said, "You look like you need another order of Proactiv and a tummy tuck, oh wait...we were talking about me." or "You could probably afford to grow another 6 inches, but that's neither here nor there!" I'd definetly find something insulting to say to make them feel just as bad.

Not the most mature approach, but if someone has the gall to say something so rude and for NO good reason, they deserve it thrown right back at them.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I looooove that smiley!!!

I hate hate hate when guys tell me to smile. Jester, maybe you are an equal opportunity "smile"er, but I have never heard (or heard of) a guy telling a male employee to smile, and I have never been told to smile by a woman. Ever. I find it extremely annoying, especially if there is a reason that I am not smiling (not feeling well, got some bad news, whatever), and especially when there is not any particular reason I am not smiling and I just have a neutral expression because I am just going about my day at work. Am I supposed to walk around with a big, cheesy, fake grin on my face all day?

/rant. Sorry.

[Becks]

I looooove that smiley!!!

I found that one for her ages ago, not that she'd remember.

Back on topic..He had NO right to say such a thing. Too bad that you were so sick, otherwise you could've gone in and complained right away.

[RogueThinker]

Touched a Nerve...

Gah! This is one of my all time pet peeves. Okay, so I have a lot of them, but I've worked in customer service too long, and we develop pet peeves like prostitutes get rashes.

See, I'm pale. Really, really pale. Deathly, can't-wear-makeup pale. I also have pretty dark hair, so I always look a little ill. At least, I must, because a week never goes by without someone telling me that "I must be tired" or "under the weather" or "coming down with something."

Godsd****mit! I'm pale you moronholes! If I'm sick or tired it is a) no business of yours unless I start licking your eyeballs, and b) I get in trouble from management if I admit to you that I am less than perfectly happy, chipper and orgasmically happy to be serving you.

Sorry, but this is an old, old wound.

[blas]

You aren't alone, Rogue. I am naturally so pale that if I showed you my wrists, you could see each invidual seperate colored veins............I am so pale that in the summer, my white legs would blind the whole beach.

I get so offended when people would ask if I'm a vampire, or chuckle and go "Are you Albino?"

Idiots, all of them.

Oh, it gets better. I've been tanning a lot lately, because of summer soon approaching. I am starting to get really bronzed. Now the same people who used to berate me for being white are now whining "You looked so much better and natural when you were pale!"

[Becks]

Blas, one time I was at work, in the smoking room (when they still had such places). My arm was against the wall, and one of the guys freaked out when he realized that the wall didn't have weird blue stripes...it was my veins.

I'm so white that people are afriad of me. Except for my exceedingly rosy cheeks. I wish I was like Bella...she's so pale and I'm jealous.

[tollbaby]

You aren't alone, Rogue. I am naturally so pale that if I showed you my wrists, you could see each invidual seperate colored veins...

You mean.... you mean that's not normal? uh-oh..... *hides hands behind her back*