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Entitled Stress
Do entitled people stress you out? Stress is not healthy. On multiple levels, we run across those entitled people here and there. They cut you off on the freeway. They might be right outside the door of your business! Where else to you encounter the entitled? In any situation, let’s learn to observe, breathe and then laugh.
Today I was at the gym at 5am. I could feel the sun on my cheek and the light in my eyeballs, while on the elliptical, looking to discover a big bright spotlight shining right on my face. In Spanish, I asked the Nice Maintenance Man to move the light. The super great guy went and schlepped out this giant ladder, like second story fire fighting tall, and set it up to move the light for me. Huge effort. Thank goodness. Oh I was so appreciative. Nobody needs to be blinded by a spotlight at 5:30am. I thanked him several times. The glare from my Ipad was gone! All gyms really need to learn indirect lighting.
OBSERVE:
Then here he came, Entitled 8 Minute Guy. There’s a man who uses the machine next to the spotlight elliptical for 8 minutes. From 6:20-6:28. He reads a xerox of the newspaper paper (one 8×11 paper). He commands Nice Maintenance Man, “You need to put the light back on my machine. I have been coming here for one year and that light needs to be on my machine so I can read.”
Nice Maintenance Man looks at me. Nice Maintenance Man cued me in both English and Spanish to speak up. I smiled and said nothing.
It was inner hilarious that it didn’t even OCCUR to Entitled Guy to ask me if I wanted the light, or if it bothered me (and yes I was there first, every day that I’m there, and going there for more years total, but so what).
BREATHE:
Nice Maintenance Man schlepps out that giant ladder again….he tried his best to give me an opportunity to stand up for smarter interior lighting with Entitled Guy, but I just observed and smiled a shit eating toothless grin. I was thinking, “Deep breathe for 2 minutes until this self-centered douche leaves.”
It took Nice Maintenance Man until 6:27 to fix the light, and entitled guy went to his 6:30 class at 6:29 (never cardio next to a performance test engineer who blogs..LOL).
Nice Maintenance Man really focused that light and aimed it right at this guy’s piece of paper, so the 8 minute asshole spotlight is all on him.
LAUGH:
When Entitled Guy went to class, Nice Maintenance Man returned to the general area (at 6:31), looked at me and we just cracked up. We laughed so hard we know each other’s dental work.
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