I am the biggest bitch in the world.

[rivka]

Rivka: Good morning.
Health Club Clerk: Oh, good for you, you made it in.
Rivka: [silently wonders why this is news]
Health Club Clerk: [takes membership card to scan] I have a friend, she's got multiple sclerosis, and she blah blah blah.
Rivka: Why are you telling me this?
Health Club Clerk: [says more things about her friend with multiple sclerosis]
Rivka: [slightly louder] Why are you telling me this?
Health Club Clerk: Well... what do you have?
Rivka: That's a personal question. That's none of your business.
Health Club Clerk: Oh. But I just...
Rivka: [firmly] It's a very rude question. [walks away]
Health Club Clerk: [calling after her] I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!
Rivka: [calling back] You didn't "hurt my feelings," you made me angry.
Health Club Clerk: Ma'am, ma'am, please come here. Please accept my apology.
Rivka: [alarmed] Okay, just... okay, don't cry.
Health Club Clerk: [crying] I am going to cry. I've had a really bad day, and...
Rivka: Look, I'm sorry you've had a bad day, but...
Health Club Clerk: Please, please say you accept my apology.
Rivka: Fine. I accept your apology. Okay.

Sheesh.

Comments

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Well, first off, I'd have to say that there's nothing in the main narrative to support the claim that you're "the biggest bitch in the world". Heck, I don't see anything to support your claiming to be any grade of bitch. The Health Club Clerk of Cluelessness asked you personal questions in a remarkably rude way. You became angry, and told her so in what I'd call an entirely appropriate manner. She then tried to ram her "apologies" down your throat and you accepted them. Personally, I think Miss Manners (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/missmanners/) [1] would have been proud.

But I wasn't there, so I suppose I'll just have to take your word for it that you're "the biggest bitch in the world". I'd completely forgotten that you'd had hip-replacement surgery until your Respectful of Otters (http://respectfulofotters.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#109059992550481088) post on the subject. None of your userpics are of an obviously handicapped person, so my mental picture of you didn't include any sort of disability. Maybe you are in fact "the biggest bitch in the world", and I just didn't realize it.

Or maybe not.

[1] FYI, the Washington Post may or may not be requiring a free registration to get at the Miss Manners archives. I'm registered on their site, so I can't easily tell.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Excellent point about the ramming the apology down your throat. Suddenly, her upset, and her,/i> bad day became the issues, and not her rudeness, not her intrusive, badly-phrased questions.

You're a very nice person. And very patient.