These Are My Confessions, Part 1
Sep 27, 2005 | Filed in Confessions | 7 Comments
A lot of established blogs have a section about the author in a bullet format for easy reading. This is the beginning of mine. Let’s start with the lighter topics.
Personality Analysis
- My astrological sign is Scorpio
- My Chinese astrological sign is the Rooster
- Myers-Briggs code is ISFJ (Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging)
Location
- I currently live in Nashville, TN
- I used to live in Raleigh, NC
- My roots are in Illinois
Family
- My husband is Rodney, we have been together 4.5 years
- We have 2 cats, Purr Purr and Prissy
- I have 2 brothers
- I am very close to my parents now, but it wasn’t always that way
- The first and only family member to fully accept me was my Grandma. She passed away on July 29, 2004. I miss her.
- Rodney and I hope to start a family of our own someday.
Career
- I am a graphic & web designer
- I started my design career in 1998
- My first job was mowing lawns when I was a teenager
- I also used to pull weeds and do gardening for the elderly lady down the street. She bothered me sometimes, but now that I’ve grown up, I realize she taught a lot about a hard earned dollar.
- I have also worked in retail, where I sold DVD’s, CD’s, and related items. It was a thankless job, but I was a good sales person and I inspired employees with my people skills.
- My worst retail experience was when I carried a very heavy storage unit out to this man’s car. He did not even help me. After doing that, he made a comment about ‘queers’, I thought of all people, he would know something about discrimination since he was black. I made him very sorry for what he said.
- I have also worked at a Domino’s Pizza. The smell of the ingredients was amazing every day. I love pizza.
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Scorpio, eh? I’m a Sagio – Scorpio/Sagitarius cusper.
Really? When is your birthday? Mine is the 20th. I am also on the cusp.
I went to school in Nashville! I miss Tennessee sooooo much…and after all this hurricane crap, I may be moving there within a few years. Mountain folk, here I come.
Come on home, Sugarfoot! I’m sure our tornadoes are looking mighty good to you right now.
We’ve just lived here a few months, but I think autumn is going to be beautiful here.
22nd of November here.
I want to know what you did to the guy to make him “very sorry.”
Scott – It would be even cooler if I remembered my exact words to the guy. But it’s been awhile, and I don’t.
Do you know how someone might say “there are a lot of clouds out today” while making small talk with a stranger?
Well this guy said that, but remove the word “clouds” and insert “queers”. It was like regular conversation to him.
I stopped right in my tracks and looked at him, and said “Oh yeah, well I’m a queer.”
He looked shocked and had to compose himself.
I continued “You should really think about the things you just come up and say to a complete stranger. You have no idea who you’re talking to.”
He said “I’m sorry man, I had no idea. You had me fooled, you wear it well”.
I said “It doesn’t matter how I wear it. You shouldn’t talk that way to me.”
He apologized some more and tried to shake my hand. I was so pissed, I stormed off .
So I didn’t actually “do” anything to him, but I caught him so offguard with my honesty that he looked like he was going to crawl into a hole.
A couple of days later, he came back to the store when I wasn’t there. He talked to my Manager and told him how sorry he was for what he had said to me.
I think my body language and strong tone is what really made him feel shitty. So that’s why I say he was “very sorry”. Whatever I said or did must have bothered him for days because he made a point to come back and apologize some more.
I think if the same thing happened today, as I’m older and more confident, the results probably would have been more severe.
I don’t believe in harming people with violence. My secret weapon is words because those do not heal.
I think I would have said things that broke down every ounce of confidence he had. It would serve him right for talking about us like freaks of nature.