To tell or not to tell...that is the question
Okay, so in addition to the highlights of the weekend (gymnastics on Saturday & dinner with NB-C & J on Sunday, and the petting zoo on Monday) I had a couple of social situation incidents with which I need your help.
What would you have done?
On Monday evening post petting zoo I went to get a fill in and pedicure. For the first time since I've been going to these nail places a guy did my pedi. I am pretty zoned out during a pedi and keep my eyes closed most of the time. When he came over to get started I of course said hello etc etc, but I immediately noticed his fly was undone. Instantly I thought "do I say something"??? I decided not to and I went back to my happy place. Well, while he was rubbing down my feet and legs with the lotion (clearly the best part of the pedi) he stopped mid leg. I wondered what was up and popped one eye barely open. He's zipping his fly. Thank goodness that's over.
What would you have done?
Last night Beak worked so E & I hauled in with Gran & Papa for a trip to a restaurant on the river in southern Indiana. I happened to have worn a Bellarmine shirt last night (thank goodness). We get done eating and there's another waiter kind of looking out the window leaned up against the wall near our table. It looks like he's got a huge booger on the side of his nose. In a split second I decide that I can't let this poor guy wait tables with this thing on his nose and I kind of motion him over and I stand up to say it in his ear when I realize it's a mole.
UHOH....I'm thinking what the heck do I do now!!!!! So I think fast enough to say "I thought you were somebody else....I work at Bellarmine (pointing to my shirt) and you must look like a student I have...everybody has a twin...ha ha!"
My mother was looking at me like I'd had a few too many and was asking me if I was okay. I waited for him to walk away and told her the real story. She said that I shouldn't have said anything and that it was the job of his co-workers to tell him if he had actually had a booger.
So, in social situations do we tell people they have something hanging from their nose, stuck in their teeth, that their pants are undone or that their dress is tucked in their hose?
I'll think twice before saying anything now, but I'm not sure I can help myself!
What would you have done?
On Monday evening post petting zoo I went to get a fill in and pedicure. For the first time since I've been going to these nail places a guy did my pedi. I am pretty zoned out during a pedi and keep my eyes closed most of the time. When he came over to get started I of course said hello etc etc, but I immediately noticed his fly was undone. Instantly I thought "do I say something"??? I decided not to and I went back to my happy place. Well, while he was rubbing down my feet and legs with the lotion (clearly the best part of the pedi) he stopped mid leg. I wondered what was up and popped one eye barely open. He's zipping his fly. Thank goodness that's over.
What would you have done?
Last night Beak worked so E & I hauled in with Gran & Papa for a trip to a restaurant on the river in southern Indiana. I happened to have worn a Bellarmine shirt last night (thank goodness). We get done eating and there's another waiter kind of looking out the window leaned up against the wall near our table. It looks like he's got a huge booger on the side of his nose. In a split second I decide that I can't let this poor guy wait tables with this thing on his nose and I kind of motion him over and I stand up to say it in his ear when I realize it's a mole.
UHOH....I'm thinking what the heck do I do now!!!!! So I think fast enough to say "I thought you were somebody else....I work at Bellarmine (pointing to my shirt) and you must look like a student I have...everybody has a twin...ha ha!"
My mother was looking at me like I'd had a few too many and was asking me if I was okay. I waited for him to walk away and told her the real story. She said that I shouldn't have said anything and that it was the job of his co-workers to tell him if he had actually had a booger.
So, in social situations do we tell people they have something hanging from their nose, stuck in their teeth, that their pants are undone or that their dress is tucked in their hose?
I'll think twice before saying anything now, but I'm not sure I can help myself!
posted by JAB @ 7:40 AM
2 Comments:
At 1:31 PM,
SEDW said…
I think people appreciate it when you let them know those things! One time, when I was an intern, my bag was pulling up the side of my skirt and I didn't notice. This woman on the Metro told me, THANK GOODNESS!
At 1:46 PM,
JAB said…
I think so too! I swear this could've ben a Seinfeld episode!
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