Day 3 - Good or Bad

This challenge is more difficult than I imagined. The analogy that best describes it is going on a diet or fast. When you first begin a diet all you think about is food. In this challenge all I think about is nagging, judging, and simply finding fault in everything in my world. What’s up with that???

Yesterday I was in a store and as I waited in line I observed a lady at the cash counter. Immediately, I began to judge her just by the way she was dressed. She looked like she was used to getting her way. How do I know this, you ask? By observing her manner I could tell she was all about business. Talk about judgmental, huh.

The clerk said to her, I can’t help you with this return. You have to go to customer service. She said, yes. But, can I return this here? I thought, what, she didn’t hear him? Then, she continues, it is just one item. He again responds, no you must go to customer service. Meanwhile the line up is getting longer. She persists one more time, even if I have the receipt? OMG! I wanted to ask her what part she didn’t understand.

After I took a couple of deep breaths (not loudly) I turned around my thinking about her. She must have decide to try to convince the clerk to take back her items rather than go to another long line up. She is entitled, isn’t she? The stores are crazy this time of the year and you can't blame a girl for trying.

You can make any experience a positive one or a negative one. It is all in how you relate to that event. Exploding tantrums (in my head) aside, on the whole a pretty great day.