It just hit me...

Several things just hit me...First of all, WAY too many things happen to me in the Barnes and Noble parking lot! LOL...Second of all, I'm not 18 anymore.

Let me explain. The other day, I was walking out of Barnes and Noble, because I just HAD to stop off for my coffee...Well, I was minding my own busienss, as always, when I see this "pack" of teenagers walking across the parking lot...I guess I was going to keep walking until one of them said, "good morning." I turned around to say good morning and I guess b/c I didn't say it cool enough or something was just not right about the way I said it, this kid was making this face back at me and holding his arms while jumping around and such. I just died. I laughed at that kid so hard. Too damn funny. I just stood there with coffee in one hand and my other hand on my knee while bending over in laughter. Then as I was driving, I realized. This was funny to me for one reason. That is just what I would do as a teen. I would laugh at people and joke them for no reason, really...Just to make myself and my friends laugh.

Now I realize I am getting older on a very different note, as well...This has to do with employees. Yesterday, it really torked me that this one employee was being obnoxiously loud in the back office. I do a good deal of my work back there. My office IS grand central for the most part. For whatever reason she was talking over my head while I was on the phone with a client...A few minutes later, I was on the phone with another client, and there she was again, over me, talking louder than anyone should considering the conversation she was trying to have. Then, all of a sudden she begins slamming the copy maker and various other things around. WHAT IN THE HELL? I was telling a friend about this, and she was like, get your ass out there and call her on it...I agreed...I mean, I could have ignored it and found myself six months from now flipping out about this or I could nix it now. I chose the latter. I just simply requested that she be mindful of the fact that I am on the phone alot, I do have e-mails I need to write, read, etc. She simply said "sorry"...Yeah, but, her maturity level is one I had at about age 18. If someone called me on anything, I would pout. Not good. What in the hell is wrong with people? Can they NOT take constructive criticism? Can they not realize that they might not have been respectful of someone else without huffing up like a bullfrog (that's what she looked like--LMAO!)

Anyway, just a couple of realizations...