Don't let sucky people ruin your day

When you reach a certain age you feel you no longer need to take any crap from sucky people. Some times you run into people during your daily activities that just make you crazy, like the receptionist at the doctors office that gives you the sit down and I'll get to you when I'm ready speech, or the rude person at the checkout. Well, this is my take on those folks that ruin your day. First of all don't let them, second have fun with it. When I have the chance to encounter with one of these wonderful folks my first response would have been anger, but now I turn that into calm and deliberateness. If I am treated poorly or rude, my verbal response is two words, excuse me? I say it in a manner that has no implied tone or attitude. I say it as if I have not heard what the person assaulting me has said. Their response is often very interesting. Often they question their own attitude and recognize that they have been rude and didn't mean it and all seems a bit better with their next response. Sometimes they come back with the same type of rude behavior that prompted my initial comment. If that is the case then I have been given the green light to seek satisfaction in any way I desire. I am often content to just enjoy that fact that I have pointed out the rude behavior and be on my way, but if I feel the need to take it a little farther I deffinately tell their boss. He'll want to know this stuff. After an encounter I forget about it.