Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke heads
Written March 8th & saved to drafts for no good reason. Brought to you now since I can't finish my current brilliant blog post because I seemed to have run out of brilliance:
Oddest thing just happened. I was just called out by one of my co-workers for drinking too much Diet Coke. And, I'm not saying that I don't. But, I see people eating junk food, bragging about not exercising, smoking, drinking coffee, energy drinks, blah, blah, blah...I wonder if they get called out. And then I got annoyed about being called out. And then I was annoyed about being annoyed which started me thinking, which is never good. So here's my thought.
I think there are categories of calling out. And I think your role in the situation of the call out will determine the usefulness of said call out. An obvious example is a doctor calling out his patient on high cholesterol for example. (Mine is 132 btw, I rule!) But, lets try to focus on more day-to-day examples.
1. The friend call out: I was called out last week. I was entangled in what I now refer to as "the sweater incident" and needed a new top to finish the work day. So, what do I do...I go to Bloomingdales. Just automatic. Didn't even think twice. Just walked over. So I was called out since there is an ENTIRE MALL to hit. I didn't have to go through the 2nd floor of one department store for 30 minutes to figure out that there was nothing I liked or could afford. Duh. So, that's a good call out since she: a) knows me; b) imparted good information; and 3) made me think about my choices.
2. The family call out: This happens WAY too often to cite a good example. But that's the point, it happens way too often to be useful. So, we'll leave it at that.
3. The acquaintance call out: What happened above is a good example. But unlike the friend example although the acquaintance is trying to do something good thing he/she : a) doesn't know me; b) didn't give me any good information; and 3) made me defensive about my choices.
4. The stranger call out: Karma punished me for this one. One of my pet peeves is the lack of manners in our society. And, in an effort to combat that, I hold doors and elevators, wave people into my lane (when they're not being immensely stupid), give the elderly the seat on my bus, etc... Well, I was getting into an elevator and 4 guys saw me and a woman who's 8 MONTHS PREGNANT and did nothing to hold the elevator. So I said something smart. And then karma punished me for not saying something useful and took one of my favorite hats away. So I learned my lesson which I will now share with you (and I think it sums up this whole rant well):
If you're going to be a smart ass, you have to be a useful smart ass...that's the polite thing to do.
Oddest thing just happened. I was just called out by one of my co-workers for drinking too much Diet Coke. And, I'm not saying that I don't. But, I see people eating junk food, bragging about not exercising, smoking, drinking coffee, energy drinks, blah, blah, blah...I wonder if they get called out. And then I got annoyed about being called out. And then I was annoyed about being annoyed which started me thinking, which is never good. So here's my thought.
I think there are categories of calling out. And I think your role in the situation of the call out will determine the usefulness of said call out. An obvious example is a doctor calling out his patient on high cholesterol for example. (Mine is 132 btw, I rule!) But, lets try to focus on more day-to-day examples.
1. The friend call out: I was called out last week. I was entangled in what I now refer to as "the sweater incident" and needed a new top to finish the work day. So, what do I do...I go to Bloomingdales. Just automatic. Didn't even think twice. Just walked over. So I was called out since there is an ENTIRE MALL to hit. I didn't have to go through the 2nd floor of one department store for 30 minutes to figure out that there was nothing I liked or could afford. Duh. So, that's a good call out since she: a) knows me; b) imparted good information; and 3) made me think about my choices.
2. The family call out: This happens WAY too often to cite a good example. But that's the point, it happens way too often to be useful. So, we'll leave it at that.
3. The acquaintance call out: What happened above is a good example. But unlike the friend example although the acquaintance is trying to do something good thing he/she : a) doesn't know me; b) didn't give me any good information; and 3) made me defensive about my choices.
4. The stranger call out: Karma punished me for this one. One of my pet peeves is the lack of manners in our society. And, in an effort to combat that, I hold doors and elevators, wave people into my lane (when they're not being immensely stupid), give the elderly the seat on my bus, etc... Well, I was getting into an elevator and 4 guys saw me and a woman who's 8 MONTHS PREGNANT and did nothing to hold the elevator. So I said something smart. And then karma punished me for not saying something useful and took one of my favorite hats away. So I learned my lesson which I will now share with you (and I think it sums up this whole rant well):
If you're going to be a smart ass, you have to be a useful smart ass...that's the polite thing to do.
posted by jenna! at
12:04 PM
1 Comments:
You know what I want to call people out on? Bragging about NOT knowing something.
I'm going to devote a post of my own on this very topic. Thanks for the inspiration.
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