People make me laugh. Like the old woman at my early morning water aerobics class, yes laugh I am going to the old people class...you may snigger but it is a good work out that doesn't hurt my knees, feet and back, I am pretty much an old lady, so it works out perfectly, and it is the only time my mom, bee and I can go together, so any way this particular old lady made me wonder about people. Not just her but a few people this week. Mostly old people I guess. So the story, my mother was saying something about how normal workouts, running, walking, standing, is really bad for her feet because she has some medical foot problem, so the workout in the water is good for her feet. Then this woman goes on about how she totally understand, but really she doesn't because she started talking about how she always wears water socks and that you can get warts and what not, she is a 'huge advocate' for water socks and that Smiths is having a sale, we should go get some. I think she just heard the work feet and jumped on the opportunity to talk. Did she listen at all, no. But I don't think that mattered to her. Then there was the instructor. She was pretty much the worst instructor ever. But the funny thing was, she asked if we had just gotten passes at the fair, my mom said yes, I said that I had one all last year, which I did, and she asked if I had ever come to this class before, I had, then she quickly said that I had looked familiar. But little did she know that I had only been to the class twice and she had not been the instructor. I had never met her in my life. Isn't it funny how people just grab onto the smallest speck of anything to feel smart and included, even if it means making stuff up and looking stupid? I find it fascinating.
I also find it fascinating how people get mad at you for not listening or not reading something when they are really the ones who don't understand. I had a volunteer get pretty mad at me for that reason. Here is the story. We had reports due. So I sent out the reminder and the report form. It is a new form that the state is having us use. It is saved in a newer version of word so I send out a patch they can download to it is compatible with their program. Most people got it to work. I had a few people email me with problems. So I sent them the patch again, with detailed instructions on what to do, You click on this page and then click the big blue download button. I also copy and pasted the form right into the email so that they could either copy and paste it into their version of word or just type it up into their email and send it back. But I didn't hear from this person and they didn't get their report in so I sent them an email seeing if I could help them figure it out. Well it turns out this person didn't have word so I again sent it in the email so they could copy and paste it into whatever they did have and I saved the document as a .doc instead of a docx and sent it to them. They need called me telling me that I didn't listen at all, that they don't have word! This person read the first line of my email and called me upset and while they were on the phone with me they opened the .doc I sent them and guess what it worked! Amazing how I fixed the problem my not listening. I really don't understand people. Why don't you try first and then get mad instead of getting mad and then try and have it work. You waste a lot of time and energy and you make me upset. I really frustrates me when people don't use the knowledge and common sense I know they have, but they take the easy 'solution' and blame someone else. Do you know how many conflicts we could solve if we just thought about things first and tried to see things from other peoples persecutive? Because I am sure if this person thought about it they could have figured it out the first time I sent it out, but instead they gave up, blaming me for changing it, festering bad feelings towards me and then blew up at me when I tried to help them and solve the problem. Something I didn't need in my busy day.
Just my thoughts.
