Blog demotivation
- Posted by Paul Gowder on June 4th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized
- 5 Comments »
I’m feeling blog-demotivated lately. Unless you convince me to blog more, it’ll be the anti-child quotes from The Customer Is Not Always Right for you.
Like this one.
(I’m in a dressing room when I overhear a mother a few rooms down having this conversation with her two children she had brought in with her. She’s adding up aloud how much her items will cost.)
Mom: $57…$64…”
Child #1: “Uh-oh, mommy! Daddy said your limit was 50 dollars! That is more than 50 dollars!”
Child #2: “Yeah, daddy said you can’t spend any more than $50!”
Mom: “Well, you know what?! Since daddy gets to go to work everyday and I’m stuck with you two, I can spend however much I want! So you can tell daddy that he can kiss mommy’s fat a**! How about that?!”
Child #2: *giggles* “I can’t wait to tell daddy that! You’re so funny, mommy!”
And this one.
Customer: *on the phone* “I need you to turn my TV back on.”
Me: “OK, let me see why it isn’t on.” *checking* “It looks like you are two months behind in your payments to us. I need to collect a payment for two months’ service, as well as $10 in late fees. Which card would you like to put that on?”
Customer: “I don’t have the money right now, but I need you to turn on the TV right away! I need the TV for my kids! I’ve been playing with them and reading stories with them, and this has just got to stop! Turn the TV back on right now!”
June 4th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Neither of those reads as anti-child at all to me.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Blog more! I like reading your blog. And I already follow the Customer Is Not Always Right, so I don’t want to see reposts here ;P
June 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
As the parent of an often difficult 4-year-old, I like both of those. Must add that site to my reading list. Perhaps it will help snap me out of my own blog malaise.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
But can you act on your don’t-blog emotions, and re-post stuff from the Customer Is Not Always Right, and at the same times will the maxim of your action to be a universal law? Why do you want to make ghost Kant cry?
June 4th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
times, of course, should read “time”