This happened when I was going to school away from home, about 4-ish years ago. While I was there, I did work study at the Winston Churchill Memorial & Library (I was a tour guide, receptionist, errand girl, etc.).
Behind the front counter was a very large bust of Winston Churchill. It was December, and in the Christmas spirit the museum was decorated in a very festive manner. Part of these decorations included a santa hat that we had put on Churchill's head.
I was finishing up with a customer, and right before she leaves, she looks disgustedly at the Churchill bust, and we have this exchange:
Woman: You really ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
Me: I'm sorry?
Woman: Can you really disrespect Mr. Churchill like that? Does your curator know about that hat?
Me: [Thinking, what a fruitcake.] Oh. Well, all our decorations are authorized by our curator.
Woman: I just can't believe you would think that a man like Winston Churchill would be okay with disrespecting his image like that. You need to take that down right now.
Me: [I really, really don't want to take it down just to spite this lady.] I'll certainly bring up your concerns with our director...
Woman continues to demand I take it down. Just to get her to leave, I do so, and she leaves. Not five minutes later I put the santa hat back up. When I told my director about her later on, she thought it was hilarious. If Churchill had been alive, I think he would have more important things on his mind than to get bent out of shape because some museum employees put a santa hat on his statue. I bet he'd probably have a sense of humour about the whole thing, unlike this woman.
Behind the front counter was a very large bust of Winston Churchill. It was December, and in the Christmas spirit the museum was decorated in a very festive manner. Part of these decorations included a santa hat that we had put on Churchill's head.
I was finishing up with a customer, and right before she leaves, she looks disgustedly at the Churchill bust, and we have this exchange:
Woman: You really ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
Me: I'm sorry?
Woman: Can you really disrespect Mr. Churchill like that? Does your curator know about that hat?
Me: [Thinking, what a fruitcake.] Oh. Well, all our decorations are authorized by our curator.
Woman: I just can't believe you would think that a man like Winston Churchill would be okay with disrespecting his image like that. You need to take that down right now.
Me: [I really, really don't want to take it down just to spite this lady.] I'll certainly bring up your concerns with our director...
Woman continues to demand I take it down. Just to get her to leave, I do so, and she leaves. Not five minutes later I put the santa hat back up. When I told my director about her later on, she thought it was hilarious. If Churchill had been alive, I think he would have more important things on his mind than to get bent out of shape because some museum employees put a santa hat on his statue. I bet he'd probably have a sense of humour about the whole thing, unlike this woman.
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