Every time I think I have a grip on what Jodie means to me I see something else and start wanting to cry. Little girl me couldn’t have DREAMED of such things. Little me, growing up in the 80s, mostly saw that boys and men had all the adventures, got to be the heroes.
And I am SO glad that it’s changing. I am SO glad that little girls and boys can now see women be the heroes. Little me would pretend to be a boy having adventures because that was the way she thought it worked. Little girls now can just… have the adventures. They can just be.
I know for a fact I’ve told this story on here before but I’ll never get over the time when I was working retail and I was cashing out some lady so I asked “cash, debit or credit how are you paying, ma’am?” And she said “that’s none of your business.” And demanded to speak to my manager about my invasive question
Oh, I’ve got one in this vein: a lady called our company wanting us to come steam clean her tile floors, but refused to give her address, instead demanding that we do it at our location. And hung up when I tried to explain that her floors were attached to her house.
Let that sink in for a second.
at my last job me two co workers and a manager had to explain to a guy why we couldn’t let him walk out to go to his car to get his wallet with a product that he didn’t pay for yet….we had to explain to him MULTIPLE times….he tried to get us (including the manager) fired the next day because we “didn’t have any trust”
another time another guy tried to get everyone in the store (including the general manager) fired because no one answered his call when he called five hours before we opened that day
i also had to explain to countless people that just because one specific product like a mouse or keyboard were on sale, it doesn’t mean that ALL mouses/keyboards were on sale
