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MARCH 24, 2008
Maybe it's a phase, maybe I should take up knitting or Sudoko, maybe I
should read books like a New Earth and achieve the enlightenment everyone is
talking about on Oprah (purchased on the side of my bed, unopened) or maybe
I should rejoice in the fact that any aspirations I had of social compliance
have gone out the window. The term social compliance is new to me, it's a
bit like having an ache in your belly for years and years and when the
doctors finally diagnoses you and gives your condition an actual name, you
wake up the next day and it's gone. Like most people I have spent a lot of
my years trying to make people happy, just going along with things in order
not to ruffle any feathers and I would say it's mostly a good thing. Then
there's the other twenty percent where you do that even when you are
getting terrible service in a restaurant, or some insurance company is
giving you the run around or it's dinner time and a call center says they
just need two minutes of your time and half an hour later the fire alarm is
shrieking because the chicken is scorched in the oven and you are still on
the phone. It is then when social compliance is on par with the flesh eating
disease munching away on your self respect inch by inch. Last week I was
standing in the Toronto airport for hours waiting to be assigned a seat on
my flight to Halifax, as the gate was about to close they finally called me
and the only other person standing there and said we were lucky to get on
the flight and stuck us both in dreaded middle seats. At that point I really
didn't care less about where I sat I just needed to get on the plane but the
other woman asked why she hadn't been assigned a seat at check in. They
brushed her off and said it was oversold as if it was her fault, she was
trying to explain that she booked her ticket months ago when the agent
snapped at her and said it was likely she didn't get a seat because her fare
was so cheap and that was when I achieved my moment of enlightenment and I
was silent no longer. Needless to say the lady got her aisle seat and I
didn't even have to get arrested. I guess the key to effective non social
compliance is having a smile on your face, it is the best offence and
defence all at the same time.
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2008:
+ March 24, 2008
+ March 18, 2008
+ March 10, 2008
+ February 18, 2008
+ February 11, 2008
+ February 4, 2008
+ January 28, 2008
+ January 21, 2008
+ January 14, 2008
+ January 8, 2008
2007:
+ December 31, 2007
+ December 17, 2007
+ December 10, 2007
+ November 26, 2007
+ November 5, 2007
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