A customer at work told me today that I have a great sing-songy
voice. I told him thank you because that was a great compliment to me
because I love to sing and I love music and my husband sings a choir. He
said that is fantastic. For some reason we developed a very quick
repertoire with each other. He kept using the military alphabet &
that was cool too, I told him so. I told him it is a very useful thing
to know and I was trying to practice my own military letters. He said,
"Do you know them all from alpha to zed?" I said, "I think so, I can
tell you if you really aren't sure." And he laughed and told me he
didn't need to quiz me! It was funny, we laughed together.
He
also poked a little bit of fun at me for not knowing where a Washington
town is, since I live here and all, but I told him I'm not native to
the area and so I didn't know where a lot of places are.
At
the end of our phone call I had to call him back, he needed to double
check something about where the package was getting shipped to. When I
called him back later, he told me that he really liked my voice, and it
seemed that I would be someone he would be friends with in real life. I
told him thank you and he would probably be my friend in real life too.
After
this conversation and finishing his order and shipping info, he told me
it's been great talking to me on the phone. I said thanks to him and he
made my day a lot better so I was glad there were great customers such
as him. He said, "Well have a nice life. I mean, night, I mean, both!
Have a nice life AND a nice night." I said, "You have a really nice life
and night too." It was so awesome!!
It's times like
this that really make me think about my life, and how ... I don't
know..... important and touching we can make each moment if we want to.
All it takes is a few kind words & a few extra moments with people, random strangers, and it's just not that hard.
It
reminded me of Burning Man, and how everyone there just LOVES. (Or at
least LIKES a lot) I want to bring this back to my life. I want this to
happen more often. I am thankful to this man, some random stranger, who
taught me today that it's OK sometimes to just let a guard down (within
good parameters) and talk to someone. Thank you, man, thank you. (I
know his name, but only from our phone call, and I will not share it
because I could definitely lose my job!!!!)
To finish, I'm pretty sure he wasn't flirting (well, maybe a little) because he was married, he was buying jewelry for his lady friend. Wife, girlfriend, etc. So, whatever, if it was flirting, then so be it, but I'm pretty sure it was definitely a genuine connection between strangers and it made me really happy. Dang.
