The Milano sunglasses wearing woman incident that happened this morning is still bothering me. The biggest problem I have is that Milano woman and I could've had a good and respectful conversation about road laws.
If she had handled the situation with more tact--not shaking her head at me in a disapproving way and calling me stupid--maybe I would be sitting here blogging about this crazy business-zone driving law I just learned about, rather than blogging about non-skillful ways of communicating.
I did learn a couple of things, though. Ignore the shaking head person--they are a bright neon sign reading "I'm making a judgement about you, and I won't be able to speak to you about it with any sort of respect."
Next, never ever wear big Milano glasses when I'm in my 50's. Or ever. Yuck.
Finally, if ever I feel the need to confront the ignorant, I'll be doubly sure to not shake my head or wag my finger. Those fashion statements only look good on Stephen Colbert. Yeah, he's hot.
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haha! You think Stephen Colbert is hot. :) Well, he is funny, and that makes people hot. So I'd date him. You know, if I were single. Maybe you should look him up in the phone book!
Any suggestions on how this conversation could have even started? I mean, I just can't think of a way to tactfully bring up "you might have killed 2 people!"
I didn't almost kill 2 people. If I did, don't you think she would've said that from the get-go? She didn't know what else to say after I rebutted that I didn't make an illegal u-turn. When she came back with the commercial-zone remark, she should've followed up with what that meant since I said "huh?"
She was grasping, reaching.
I am a very good driver. I knew where all the pedestrians, dogs, cyclists and other cars where. I drive a nice car. Why would I do something risky? I wouldn't.
Stephen Colbert is hot! I love the way he dresses. Yummy! (He's funny? I didn't notice!)
I know you didn't almost kill 2 people (at least, I trust that you didn't). But if that's what she was implying, really, how do you say that to someone? Or even the u-turn thing. I'd feel like an ass telling someone I didn't know that they drove poorly, no matter how nicely I said it. Unless of course it was me that almost got killed. Then I'm sure a few key phrases would have come rolling off my tongue.
Sleep Goblin--Understood. I guess if I felt compelled to say something, I'd start out with, "Excuse me. Nice car! From where I was sitting, it looked like you almost hit 2 pedestrians. Did you see them?"
I don't know. Even that seems awkward and forced. I'm going to go with: not saying anything, unless, like you said, I or somebody with me was one of the 2 almost hit.
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