Not
too long ago, I use to work at a photography studio. It was the worst out of
the many rotten jobs that I have had. At first I thought I loved kids, but as
time had gone by and my naivety faded away, children soon after terrified me.
It wasn’t only children that annoyed me. Their parents were probably worse.
Some were abusive to their kids and others were bossy. The whole place was
chaotic, with Lego pieces flying across the playroom, the smell of dirty
dippers and Chex mix, and the sound of bickering couples was a headache in the
making and I had to survive the day with an artificial smile on my face. I
hated that job with all my heart, but I left with stories that I will always
remember.
After
spending the whole day at work, I became agitated and grumpy. There were only
20 minutes until my shift was over, I was hoping to just take out the trash,
but instead ended up having to take over someone else’s sales. At the sales
desk was a chubby little girl in tight pink leopard pants and a furry jacket
with her aunt and grandmother. I took a deep breath, and then introduced myself
to them in the friendliest way I could manage. As we all looked at the pictures
one by one, eliminating the ones that they were not going to be purchase, I tried
to hold my laughter in and keep my face neutral to the fact that the 8 year
olds photos looked horrible. The girl had spunk. I however, described her look
as “skanky face”, but quickly corrected myself and said spunky.
I
must have called her a skank like 5 times soon after. I was losing it. I
couldn’t focus. I just wanted to go home! We went through the photos 10 times
more, her aunt and grandmother were hyping up the pictures and the young girl
was demanding to have enough photos to give out to her class mates. I looked at
the girl and asked, “are you sure you want to hand these out at school?”
Sometimes at work I forget to turn on my filter, since I had already called her
a skank, there was no point of me turning it back on. At this point I really
couldn’t care less about meeting my quota for the day, I just wanted to go home. After
exhibiting my worst sales-person skills, they ended up buying 500 dollars worth
of pictures.
I enjoyed this blog, besides some grammatical errors it was a decent piece and you did a good job.I felt like you were pretty blunt and straight forward in this one, it's like i can almost feel how your bad day was going at the moment of reading. There's also some humor in this piece...For example, you asking the little girl if she wanted all the pictures to take to school because to yourself you knew they didn't come out so great kind of made me giggle. I also liked how you were able to paint of vivid picture for the reader.
ReplyDeleteGood writing. Your honesty is what made this piece enjoyable. Your descriptions of the dirty diaper and chex-mix smell and legos all over the play room created some strong images for me as I read this. Be careful with your grammar. The mistakes were nothing a little proof reading before posting can't solve. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI really like the conversational tone of your blog. I found myself reading quite a few of your posts just because of the fact that they were really easy to read and were humorous as well. The humor kept me interested and wanting to read more. I liked how you were able to present bad situations in a humorous light. You do a great job of painting an image in the readers' heads through your use of description. Work on the proof reading, but other than that I think you are doing well with your blog.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job expressing how you felt and used alot of imagery and detail to get your feelings across. I love your sense of humor because it made me so much more interested. I can feel the tension you felt at work just by reading this. It's really relatable because at times I want to throw stuff at some of the customers I get at work too. I like the way you write and think you can go a lot farther with posts full of humor and honesty about your feelings of daily life experiences. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteYou play a lot with the senses here, which I like. I can picture the chaos in the studio. This was pretty funny, and I can imagine your frustration. Other than some grammar issues, I think you've done a good job here.
ReplyDeleteI dearly do love this one. The way you convey emotion through the post was great. We all get a sense as to how much you wanted to just go home. It held a funny and conversational tone the whole time. Only thing that could be improved would be the grammar but that's nothing big.
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