Saturday morning.
Coffee shop.
Rainy.
Headphones. Homily. Taxes.
Hi yes I made a reservation for a court HI YES I NEED TO CHANGE MY RESERVATION
who is shouting and why
Well if you can’t help me then is there someone there who can
why do people shout on phones in coffee sho-
I understand you’re not the manager
but certainly someone besides the manager can answer this question
I did this reservation online
How do I change the time
My group decided something different
We’re trying to play PICKLEBALL and YOU’RE MAKING THIS HARD
all this for pickleball?
wonder what he’s like when it actually matters
Yes the time needs to change from 6 to 6:15pm. yes for tuesday. TUESDAY
are you even listening
pickleball. 15 minutes. on a tuesday?
jeez now I’m judging. am I judging or just eavesdropping?
it can’t be eavesdropping…not if i don’t have a choice
but even if i had a choice, i’d probably still be listening
what’s wrong with your system
what’s wrong with you
idiot.
who’s on the other end?
some lady working part-time on the weekend
some kid who doesn’t care if this dude lives or dies
some pickleball expert
some human person with feelings and a life,
trying to get by on this bizarre planet
okay i’ve done the math
and with the time change
you owe me a small refund.
was that sigh i just heard
from the other end of that phone
or from me
and from everyone else in here
or from that guy
who’s found himself yelling on the phone again.
grateful to sort this out.
I feel better now.
super appreciated.
in these days of war and strife
pickleball and a board meeting
are the same
i’m mad at how he
spoke on the phone
to someone he doesn’t know
but I don’t actually know that
maybe it’s his kid
or his ex-wife
what i do know is that
i’m doing to him
what i think
he’s doing to them
and maybe we both should just
learn to be nice.
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do “about” people is to love them. Dorothy Day