Is This For Real?
Amazing the things that happen around us that just make you go “hmmmm.” So the other day when I went to the mall for my bullshit “VIP Victorias Secret” party I did come away with a few things to blog about. I will chose just one for today but some good ones are on the way:)
We got all dressed up and decided to make this party a date night. I really did not know how the VIP invite for VS would go so to have back up we decided to do a little Christmas shopping and grab a nice dinner. When we got to that mall we were not hungry so we did the shopping first. It was then time to for the private shopping at VS to start so we headed down. Long story short and by the obvious sarcasm above the party was a scam. Nothing VIP about it and anyone could enter. Anyway, I do not want to get into that…. needless to say we did not stay but a few minutes and then headed out for dinner.
Here is where I saw something that just made me go hmmmmm. I know we are all busy and life is tough. We are going a million miles and hour and it never seems like we have time for anything. I do believe this is a choice, one many of us have picked. Ok back to the subject. There is busy and then there is lazy. I did not even know this was was service (if you want to call it that) that restaurants provided. We were waiting outside for our name to be called because it was beautiful out. As we sat there chatting I kept seeing waiter walking out to the parking lot and back in. At first I thought they were on a smoke break or something until I realized that several trips to the lot it was the same guy. So I watched more intently. What I discovered….. holy hell! People can not only call in to these finer restaurants for pick up but they do not even need to get out of their cars? I had to laugh a little to myself. I mean seriously, you can’t get your ass out of your freaking car to pick up your dinner? All I can say to that is two things for those of you who choose this type of “service”.
1. Don’t bitch because you have no friends and or don’t have good people skills anymore
2. Don’t bitch because your out of shape.
I am not (seriously) trying to be mean, but in a world that is so caught up in technology…. face to face personal skills and waning and laziness seems to be king. I think I was just shocked to see that yet one more thing has been made available to make not communicating with people and not having to physically lift a finger would be added to our repertoire. About 2 years ago I noticed that we never needed to get out of our cars for anything anymore. Pharmacy, bank, food…. and on and on. I decided about a year and a half ago that I would not use drive thru options. It is just my thing but I wanted to stay in touch with people. I want a person to check me out at the grocery store. I want to say hello to my bank tellers, and if I am in too big of a hurry to get our and grab food I don’t have time to eat. I am not suggesting this will work for everyone but I am suggesting you try it. There was a day when you HAD to get out of your car and talk to people to get things done. You may find you like it again:) Just a thought.
xxx
Brandi
