{"id":1569,"date":"2008-03-27T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T12:48:00","slug":"well-wont-this-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Well, won’t this be fun."},"content":{"rendered":"

At last night’s knit night,<\/a> I wound up telling the tale of the postal clerk several times. Everyone was appropriately outraged, as I was by the time I got there that night. It was pointed out that since it was assault on federal property, it was probably a felony. I love the way my friends leap to my defense. Y’all are great.<\/p>\n

The more I think about yesterday’s unpleasantness with the postal worker, the angrier I get. That guy would never have hit a male patron on the head. Ever. And I can’t excuse his behavior as being because he’s a teenager or “of a certain age.” He couldn’t be more than 50, tops. Of course, age isn’t an excuse anyway. My father wouldn’t do that to a strange girl, and he’s – sorry, Dad – close to being “of a certain age.” He’d to it to me, because he’s my dad, but that’s fine. Because he’s my dad.<\/i> Not some random guy in a store.<\/p>\n

He popped me on the head like I was a child. But I’m a 39-year-old woman. Unfortunately, the key there is “woman” which I believe he subconsciously saw as lesser. I’m not going to draw that out. I’m sure you can see where it’s going.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I’m up at that post office several times a week, and I can’t be seething with rage every time I go in there, so I’m going to have to talk to him. I get that in his mind, we were joking around, and I was smiling at that point, so I’m not going to talk to his boss or be mean. But I do feel that I need to let him know that it’s not really appropriate to pop his customers on the head, and also point out that that kind of behavior in the workplace is a good way to have sexual harassment charges leveled at him. He won’t know if nobody tells him. Fortunately, I don’t mind being the one to say these things when they need to be said.<\/p>\n

Still, not exactly big fun. Oh well.<\/p>\n

ETA:<\/b> I just stopped by, and the clerk wasn’t there. However, the new-guy clerk who helped me today gave me a lollipop. Ordinarily, that’d be no big deal, but on the heels of the other, it’s just becoming comedic. It’s me, isn’t it? It’s something about me that says, “I’m eight years old.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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