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And another thing. (rant)
Jun. 11th, 2006 05:30 pmCalling me a weirdo, perverted, kinky, swearing at me, and dragging your children away whilst warning that "the witch woman over there will eat you if you don't behave" are not acceptable behaviours and show a distinct lack of manners.
I point this out because every week when I do market stalls, some person calls me something nasty, or swears at me, then becomes agitated when I answer back.
Today, I informed a particularly rude specimen that the use of a parasol does not, in fact, make me deaf, and I could hear her informing her husband that I was using a parasol because I was only inches away. And aware that I was using a parasol as I was carrying the damn thing, and using it to poke awful people with the St. George's Cross bleached into their hair in the eye :) (well, one has to amuse oneself somehow!).
Today I have been sworn at 6 times, used to threaten small children once, enforced someone's poor discipline once (she was screaming for the children to come away from the stall, but they were too intent on trying on skull rings, so I said "I think your mother would like you to catch up, boys" and off they went!), and asked a man to stop filming me once. Yes, he had a video camera. I suspect he had just bought it, then found my bared, pallid flesh too tempting not to film.
Can't these people be taken away and taught some manners FFS?
Oh. And swearing at me when you hear the price of something will NOT make me automatically reduce the price. It will make me fetch my large husband, who will tell you not to swear at his wife unless you want your next meal through a straw. Ghost issues my warnings so much better than I do :)
I point this out because every week when I do market stalls, some person calls me something nasty, or swears at me, then becomes agitated when I answer back.
Today, I informed a particularly rude specimen that the use of a parasol does not, in fact, make me deaf, and I could hear her informing her husband that I was using a parasol because I was only inches away. And aware that I was using a parasol as I was carrying the damn thing, and using it to poke awful people with the St. George's Cross bleached into their hair in the eye :) (well, one has to amuse oneself somehow!).
Today I have been sworn at 6 times, used to threaten small children once, enforced someone's poor discipline once (she was screaming for the children to come away from the stall, but they were too intent on trying on skull rings, so I said "I think your mother would like you to catch up, boys" and off they went!), and asked a man to stop filming me once. Yes, he had a video camera. I suspect he had just bought it, then found my bared, pallid flesh too tempting not to film.
Can't these people be taken away and taught some manners FFS?
Oh. And swearing at me when you hear the price of something will NOT make me automatically reduce the price. It will make me fetch my large husband, who will tell you not to swear at his wife unless you want your next meal through a straw. Ghost issues my warnings so much better than I do :)
