I’m Fitzy, I’m a bartender, and I hate August.
Working on Cape Cod, the middle two weeks of August are a nightmare. It’s like everybody realized Summer is ending and they have unfinished business, if only everyone else would get out of their way so they could hurry up! (Manhattanites are particially to blame for this, as the finance sector takes their vacation during this time and expects the surrounding world to realize this and conspire to their every demand. On behalf of the rest of us, Go Fuck Yourselves.)
Besides priding myself on professionalism, I get to do quite a bit of people-watching during the Summer and I’ve figured out a way for everyone to improve their experience (and life).
PLAN BETTER!
Or as Jimmy Dugan would say, “Use your head! That’s the lump three feet above your ass!”
It boggles my mind how pissed off people get when their frustration could be avoided by taking a few minutes to think about the situation before engagaing. One way to do that is to conciously be in the moment, be observant, and make sound decisions based on the aforementioned.
You have no one to blame but yourself if you’re so concerned with the speed of something that you ignore the obvious. While technology has made things more accessible at a faster rate, it doesn’t translate to people making the same progress with their brains. It results in lazier people making worse decisions at a faster rate.
Stop staring into the cell phone or GPS, be aware of your surroundings, and use that lump three feet above your ass.
A friend of mine in Florida has a niece, Jessica Keener who published her debut novel in January. Jessica has graciously agreed to do an author read at The Dennis Memorial Library on Thursday, September 6th, at 2 pm. Light refreshments will be served and I am excited to be the first to tell you. I hope you can join me when Jessica speaks on "Night Swim". You may have read her journalistic columns in the Boston Globe and various magazines. As a young girl Jessica summered at Sea Pines in Brewster and her swimming and sailing abilities were are all nurtured on Cape Cod. I know you will enjoy her author talk and I would be so happy to introduce each one of you to her.
ReplyDeleteMy best to you, Fitzy...please feel free to bring a friend or two or three or four. Jane McGinnis jmcgin9454@gmail.com
sorry about the New Yorkers!!!!
Thanks so much for the heads-up Jane. I will try my best to make it! Cheers.
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