I should stick to on-line shopping
3 December 2009
Although the general consensus yesterday was that my post was not as much of a downer as I’d feared, I’ll stick to my vow to be light and zippy today.
Yesterday, I ventured to the mall for my first foray in Christmas shopping this season. At Barnes and Noble, I was making a beeline for the elevator when someone said, “Hi, Stephanie!”
First, I jumped like a startled cat. As if it’s such a shocking thing for someone to say hello to me. It was the Community Relations Manager, Michael, who’s a total dream to work with.
Feeling kinda like a big shot because I now know people at book stores (and because they had a ton of my books facing cover-out on the shelf), I wanted to make conversation. I opened with, “How was your weekend?” and then quickly began praying that he would NOT realize how stupid that question was. Because I just did a book signing there on Monday. As in the day that falls AFTER the weekend. And we talked for like an hour that night.
If he realized I was being a total moron, he was at least nice enough to not point and laugh at me. But, sheesh. Makes me think twice about doing any shopping at any store where I might run into a business contact. Clearly I can’t get through a simple interaction without being jumpy and stupid.
Okay, a trite post, maybe, but I think I delivered on the light and zippy thing. Happy Thursday, everybody!
Light, zippy, and funny. Can’t tell you how many times I do this sort of thing—maybe this is why all my friends are e-mail buddies . . .
Posted by Roseanna White on 3 December 2009