i don't know if its just my judgmental nature or my knack for noticing small unnecessary details but i tend to find a lot of quirks about people that bother me. little pet peeves. annoying mannerisms. stupid habits. i know that i have my share of them but goddamn, there are some inconsiderate and obnoxious people in there world. like today for example. before i even went into work today, i knew it was going to be crazy and hectic considering it was only about 60 degrees outside. cold day plus our hot ramen and soup equals a buttload of customers. with that in mind, i also knew that even though we have a perfectly respectable sign that states our maximum capacity is 55, our lovely customers will try to huddle inside of our store to hide from the cold. which brings me to my story.
as i was filling water cups, i noticed that our restaurant started to smell of cigarette smoke and i quickly glanced up to see what imbeciles were causing the entire store to reek. [side note: i'm not trying to bash on smokers because i know many lovely people that smoke and its whatever. i really don't care. it's when people are inconsiderate of others when they smoke that i have a problem] when i finally spotted the culprits, mr. tan jacket, mr. black jacket, and ms. wears too much make up, i got genuinely angry. most of the time when i catch people smoking and stinking up our store, they are just smoking too close to the door and i kindly ask them to move. but these three were ridiculous. the cold weather and their incessant need to smoke allowed them to fall into the habit of standing inside the restaurant with their stogs and just opening the door when they needed to blow out and closing it when they didn't. believe me, my jaw could not have dropped any lower. i mean, seriously? don't even take in the fact that there is a law stating that you must be 20 feet away from any store when smoking but there are families dining in our restaurant. families that include children. what has this world come to. before these three could feel the wrath of my verbal abuse, a guy in a blue jacket from a table of four stood up and sternly asked them to either leave or put out their cigarettes. that might seem like a simple gesture to most people but i wanted to hug the man. it's easy to say that if you saw someone being careless or inconsiderate, you would do something about it, but when the situation presents itself, people usually look the other way. it's nice to know that someone had the decency and balls to tell someone off, even at the risk of retaliation.
so thank you, guy in the blue jacket. you have given me some hope for mankind now.
