Busted!
Well, really I wasn't 'busted' in the sense of doing anything wrong... I was caught simply by allowing my face to show my true feelings... I expressed myself.
The Situation
I'm the elevator at the office. It's just before lunch time so the elevator is busy.
There are two other people on the elevator, one behind me, and another to my right. The door opens and two others board and occupy the space previously occupied by the other lady. I look over (I decided against saying that I look 'down' at the new passenger, but I am probably a good 9 inches taller than her) and hear a slight 'gasp' of the "Well I never" variety behind and to the right. You see, one of the passengers was quite upset by the disgusted look I let slip on to my face. The reason she was obviously upset with me... The lady now standing directly beside me is physically challenged and using a pair of crutches to get around.
But PLEASE!!! Believe me when I say I never even noticed this. What I was disgusted by was the new co-passenger who arrived and is two spaces over... And the BUCKET OF PERFUME she was wearing!!!! I was almost in tears. DEAR GAWD!
My Solution (to this very difficult social 'faux pas')
I pretended to stifle a sneeze.
I'm a shitty actor.
The Result
The lady with the crutches gave me a confused "Bless you."
I could see from the reflection in the door my 1 person audience was obviously unimpressed with my performance.
The Perfume Factory was still giving off vapors like Pepe Le Pew from Looney Tunes .
The Lesson
Don't express yourself in public.
Daily botox if you're like me and are unable to hide your feelings behind a cool exterior and bitch about it later on your blog.
Take the stairs.
posted by Huma @ 22:37
4 Comments:
I know you would never intentionally hurt someone's feelings. But really, elevators are fair game - if people could read my mind when they get back from a smoke break - I would really be in trouble!! Also - most people know that if you can smell perfume/colgne on yourself - then you are wearing too much! So if they don't, their friends should tell them.
I think you need to intentionally hurt people more often. Yes I do. You're too nice!
Who cares? So you let your feelings show.... I wish I would do that more often. I can't stand perfume laden people. If they could only smell the stink that trails them. Yuck.
Yea...what Jay said it what I meant.
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