Go to coffee shop today at lunch some guys on my crew come too, two old ladies sitting at the window so they obviously see me get out of the work truck, in my work clothes, with the guys I work with. When I get in line it`s quite long and winding past the tables so I get to stand there and listen to them going on about me
`She should be at home looking after babies, in my day women didn`t to work like that, it`s not very lady-like, she should be taking care of her family`blah blah blah
I also have some tattoos including one on my wrist that is visible even with winter clothes on
`and she has a tattoo, these young ladies getting tattoos, it's one of those trend things, people used to get tattoos to mark very special accomplishments, now they just get tattoos willy nilly`blah blah blah
so I snapped, turned to them and loudly said
'I USED to be lucky enough to be able to stay and look after my baby until his father died and I had to go back to work to support my family, but at least I got a great tattoo to commemorate his life so I can always be reminded of what a great husband and father he was, and in MY DAY we were taught not to judge a book by it`s cover, and treat others as we would like to be treated!`
And stormed out to the truck in a most unlady-like fashion. I don`t know why I thought making them feel like jerks would make me feel better (it didn`t) or why I thought I could take out my crappy day on them, because that`s no better than what they were doing, but at least everybody who witnessed my little outburst got to see the name of the company I work for plastered all over the truck I got into
One of the guys bought me a coffee though, so that was nice.
`She should be at home looking after babies, in my day women didn`t to work like that, it`s not very lady-like, she should be taking care of her family`blah blah blah
I also have some tattoos including one on my wrist that is visible even with winter clothes on
`and she has a tattoo, these young ladies getting tattoos, it's one of those trend things, people used to get tattoos to mark very special accomplishments, now they just get tattoos willy nilly`blah blah blah
so I snapped, turned to them and loudly said
'I USED to be lucky enough to be able to stay and look after my baby until his father died and I had to go back to work to support my family, but at least I got a great tattoo to commemorate his life so I can always be reminded of what a great husband and father he was, and in MY DAY we were taught not to judge a book by it`s cover, and treat others as we would like to be treated!`
And stormed out to the truck in a most unlady-like fashion. I don`t know why I thought making them feel like jerks would make me feel better (it didn`t) or why I thought I could take out my crappy day on them, because that`s no better than what they were doing, but at least everybody who witnessed my little outburst got to see the name of the company I work for plastered all over the truck I got into
One of the guys bought me a coffee though, so that was nice.
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