I was diagnosed with a disease that messed
with my hormones. This forced me to plummet into depression and it doused me
with apathy. I wanted nothing more than to sleep the days away. A dark cloud
clung to my back and I couldn’t get through the fog.
They gave me medication to normalize it,
but I still feel its menacing claws digging into my spine. I try to be what
people want me to be; what they know I can be, but it just weighs me down more.
I can’t seem to overcome the monster devouring my life.
Something is very wrong with me and I don’t
know what to do to prevent this trend of destruction. I feel like I can’t make
myself be who I once was and it’s killing me.
The longer I stay like this, the more I
will disappoint others and that hurts most of all.
Working in the fast
food business, I have many pet peeves. One such irritation is how people try to
garner my attention when they are parked at my window in the drive thru…
I have given them their
food with the ketchup they requested in the bag. The window shuts and I am
preparing for the next customer to pull up, which means I have turned away from
the window. The person at the window honks their car horn obnoxiously, but I can’t
hear it through the building. Their impatience grows and I return to the window,
after only about a minute, and expect to see my next customer. The window opens
and I glimpse the upset face of the first customer.
All they wanted was
more ketchup.
I find it just so rude
when customers honk their horn or tap impatiently at the window. The first I
can’t even hear, so it is extremely pointless for them to do, and the second
just gives the appearance that I am a bad employee that isn’t trying to take
care of their needs. Both options are just plain rude in my opinion and they
make me so angry every time I see a customer do them. In my mind, I see those
forms of trying to get my attention as impatience, or that the customer thinks
the world revolves around them.
I know that sometimes
they are just innocent acts that the customer thinks are the only way to get my
attention, but if they just patiently waited for a small amount of time, I will
eventually be back at the window and happy to help them.
A harmless,
unthreatening way to get someone’s attention would just be to wave, which
people rarely ever do, probably since they are already coming through a drive
thru and want everything handed to them as quickly as possible.
