Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
~Jim Fiebig
Monday, September 19, 2011
Paradox and Inspiration 153: When Being Right is Wrong
Sorry, that was mean. I could have just nodded my head to acknowledge that I had heard her.
Somehow, I just marched into the shop and brushed past the sales lady, without even looking at her face or bothering to respond to her "What are you looking for" in Mandarin. I'm not sure why I did it, perhaps all I could think of at that point in time was to rush to grab a bag of dried wolfberries and go, or maybe then I had ignored her because I was turned off by the repeated encounters of sales people asking that same old standard question when in your mind there's absolutely nothing that I am looking for, or could it be that I was still processing her question for an answer and by the time I could decide if I was actually looking for something, I had already whizzed past her? I'm only human, entitled to occasional glitches.
Full of excuses.
Somehow, I just marched into the shop and brushed past the sales lady, without even looking at her face or bothering to respond to her "What are you looking for" in Mandarin. I'm not sure why I did it, perhaps all I could think of at that point in time was to rush to grab a bag of dried wolfberries and go, or maybe then I had ignored her because I was turned off by the repeated encounters of sales people asking that same old standard question when in your mind there's absolutely nothing that I am looking for, or could it be that I was still processing her question for an answer and by the time I could decide if I was actually looking for something, I had already whizzed past her? I'm only human, entitled to occasional glitches.
Full of excuses.
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