Women and Mink

So I was shift manager tonight and the hotel was pretty much dead. It's Thanksgiving week, what do you expect? I was standing out at the desk by myself when a woman came out for a smoke. Now I must warn you that I don't notice the cloths a woman wears on a regular basis. My attention rests mostly on the face, which gets me into more trouble than I can explain. Women like it when you compliment them which I fail at time and time again. So this lady looks at me as if I'm supposed to say something, and all my clever mind can come up with is

"Keeping warm ma'am?"

The way I see it, it's little clever phrazes like these that complete the image of someone in a service position. I should maybe consider taking on the name Jeeves or Nigel. Maybe that would help too.

But anyways, she looks at me and then looks down at her brown, glistening mink coat and says affirmingly.

"Yes."

I knew I was in for it. She sat down and told me that she'd been warm since she got to Nashville. She then began to convince me of this with a few mink related stories. She was evidently standing in line at a store and a woman was just looking at her coat. She explained this to me proudly.

"You know what I did? I asked her (as she slid her classes slightly off her nose) 'Are you warm? Because I am! I told her just like that too!"

I wasn't sure what to say. "Good for you?" "Way to be a complete @$$hole?" I just smiled instead, thinking to myself that it's little things like this that keep boring nights interesting.

Ahh but today, today. I hesitated when I woke up as I do most early mornings, but I felt to energized to just stay in bed. I went to all of my classes but Calc. I just couldn't bring myself to do it because she has been so cruel as being my only teacher who did not cancel classes tomorrow. I can't be home at a decent hour because she's teaching new material that is going to be on the test as soon as we get back. Mean.

But at work I was given two totally awesome chairs just because they didn't want them anymore, and tomorrow I get to go home to High Point. I'm glad about that. I get to see all my family and friends. Fun times! Peace and love.