Call Me: "Rockin Mama - Take II" (Update: RESOLVED!)

Slinky wrote:CONGRATULATIONS, Thomas!!! Another success story! Hallelujah! Now you just keep hanging w/us and we'll get you thru any other minor problems you may encounter!!! We are SO PROUD of you!!!

Thank yew. I hope nobody can understand that I would not have been rude (if indeed I was) to that DME unless I was pretty doggone sure it was going to get me what I wanted AND what I had a right to have.

I understand business is business, but personality is an important factor for many (most?) of us. Where I take my car to be serviced, a nice person at the counter is cheerful and happy to see me. It makes me feel good to be there and I respond accordingly. Who wants to walk into a place with a "wadda-ya-want" attitude. When that happens to me I also respond in kind to them.

On the other hand, when I walk into a store where the saleslady calls me "honey', "dearie", "sweetie", I walk out w/o buying no matter how bad I might want the item. If I want it bad enough I "may" go back and buy it later from a DIFFERENT salesperson, but the "dearie", "honey" , sweetie" gal is NOT getting a sale from me!!!!

OldLincoln wrote:Who wants to walk into a place with a "wadda-ya-want" attitude. When that happens to me I also respond in kind to them.

I guess really that is exactly kinda what happened. But we worked it out and I *so* glad we did!

If only ALL professional relationships could be worked out this easy! ACK!

Amen, ThomasMcKean! Amen.

OldLincoln wrote:I understand business is business, but personality is an important factor for many (most?) of us. Where I take my car to be serviced, a nice person at the counter is cheerful and happy to see me. It makes me feel good to be there and I respond accordingly. Who wants to walk into a place with a "wadda-ya-want" attitude. When that happens to me I also respond in kind to them.

I try not to respond in kind because I've noticed that often if you are polite anyway they will get out of their bad hair day or whatever it is that's up their bums and stop being so rude. Not always, of course. When they continue to act rude anyway I feel that I'm a better person than they are for not responding in kind... or at least I'm better behaved. Plus, I can't figure out how whether she's wearing dressy outfits or jeans and T-shirt is important to his CPAP therapy?

nobody wrote:I try not to respond in kind because I've noticed that often if you are polite anyway they will get out of their bad hair day or whatever it is that's up their bums and stop being so rude. Not always, of course. When they continue to act rude anyway I feel that I'm a better person than they are for not responding in kind... or at least I'm better behaved. Plus, I can't figure out how whether she's wearing dressy outfits or jeans and T-shirt is important to his CPAP therapy?

Yew are right about how to act, of course. Kill them with kindness as they say. And maybe if I had not been so sleep deprived I would have handled it better in the beginning.

As for the clothes, I can answer that.

She was cute in the dressy outfit. She was downright drop dead in the jeans and t shirt. The change in her attitude also helped make her more appealing.

I have heard most guys like women dressed up. I prefer the casual look. It is more "real", and over the years I have noticed a subtle (very subtle) difference in behavior of women that corrolates directly with how they are dressed.

I will be the first to admit I am far from normal. One look at my site will verify that. I have always felt more secure with the casual look around me. If I am in a room full of suits and dresses (or even in a room with just one suit or dress), I can't wait to get out of there, regardless of what is going on.

Personal preference and a bit of oddball Thomas, I guess...

ThomasMcKean wrote:I have always felt more secure with the casual look around me. If I am in a room full of suits and dresses (or even in a room with just one suit or dress), I can't wait to get out of there, regardless of what is going on.

Oh I am so naughty quoting myself!

I can give yew an example. When I walked in and she was so nice after two days of just the opposite, I didn't even say hello back to her. I just asked her where that person I was looking at had been. That was pure autism, and also pure Thomas. If she had been all dressy, there is no way I would've had the guts to do that. I also don't think she would have responded as she did if she had been more dressed, simply because the casualness took some of the "professionalism" out of the moment.

It is a definite sideways view of thinking, I admit. But I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.

I am me.

A man after my own heart, ThomasMcKean! I even beat Barbara Mandrell to the blue jeans bit. I am most comfortable in blue jeans, t-shirt and maybe a sweat shirt. While I still wouldn't wear jeans to church (if I went anymore), hey, I wouldn't be bashful to attend a white house dinner in my jeans!!! For BushBaby, Cheney & Rummy I'd have worn my faded, 15 year old jeans w/the knees out and barn boots used for mucking stalls, but for this new Prezzy, at least for the time being, I'd actually don a pair of maybe burgundy colored Wranglers w/complimenting T-shirt and maybe kinda fancy sweat shirt.

I so well remember thinking I had died and gone to heaven when we moved to a small town, I was starting 8th grade, and lo and behold they allowed GIRLS to wear blue jeans to school!!!!! MY KINDA PEOPLE!! Prior to that, all my other schools girls couldn't even wear slacks. (Changed schools 11 times in 13 years).

Slinky wrote:A man after my own heart, ThomasMcKean I even beat Barbara Mandrell to the blue jeans bit. I am most comfortable in blue jeans, t-shirt and maybe a sweat shirt. While I still wouldn't wear jeans to church (if I went anymore), hey, I wouldn't be bashful to attend a white house dinner in my jeans!!! For BushBaby, Cheney & Rummy I'd have worn my faded, 15 year old jeans w/the knees out, but for this new Prezzy, at least for the time being, I'd actually don a pair of maybe burgundy colored Wranglers w/ complimenting T-shirt and maybe kinda fancy sweat shirt.

I don't know? I think he has a fun, casual side buried in there somewhere. I hope "we the people" get an oppotunity to see it someday.

Well some have said I'm a gnarly ole @#$% and I've even been called a "wus", but only slinky can call be that. I've been around here for more than two years, don't say a lot, just reading and learning and I've read this thread, but not until I was to the end of it did I look closely at the thread. Now all I can say, after reading some more, is I've been touched and extend a warm welcome and thank you to ThomasMcKean and wish you the best as you go forth along life's way and the struggles of cpap.

Blessings

Fred

There have been times that people appear rude to me and at first I try to ignore it and kill them with kindness or my own good humor. Sometimes that doesn't work though and I have been known to look them right in the eye and ask if they are upset about something or is it just me? Usually that brings them up short and makes them realize that maybe they need to be more courteous and most of the time that works. If it doesn't and someone strikes me as particularly rude I have no problem with telling them I will either deal with another person in that store or another store or I ask for the manager.
Generally I am such a sweet little fuzz ball I don't have any problems.

bearcatx16 wrote::Now all I can say, after reading some more, is I've been touched and extend a warm welcome and thank you to ThomasMcKean and wish you the best as you go forth along life's way and the struggles of cpap.

Thanks yew. Though the reason I fought so hard for the Eilete was so it would NOT be a struggle at all. Like everyone else, I am on the edge of my seat waiting for news from the original Rockin Mama. I hope we can make this a two-fer today. Might just have to throw a party!

As they say here in VA, "Shoot yeah, Man! That's what I'm talkin' about! Gravy and Potatoes!"

(Okay, go ahead, don't believe me. But they DO put the "Gravy and Potatoes" in there! I have no idea why?)

Better taters and gravy than grits and gravy, or even just grits, in my book, thank you. They must be an acquired taste. Like candied grasshoppers, peppermint schnapps and rattlesnake steaks.

I been sitting here responding to posts and trying to get in on the conversation. I notice my spelling is HORRIBLE today.

I been up for well over 48 hours. The cat wants to snuggle so I think I will try yet again to sleep. I pray I can wake to good news from Rockin Mama.