We all have stock-standard jokes. Lines. Go-to stories. Our family has sat around the dinner table many a night as our kids have grown up and worked in various service areas – shops and cafes – and customers have a surprisingly short list of comments – of which I sadly am one. So when we think we’re being funny and amusing to the waitress, or the young man at Bunnings – unless it’s their first day on the job, your remark is unlikely to be their first hearing. (“No price tag? Oh it must be free then”. Go on – admit it. You know you’ve said it).
Hurt but Helped
A very angry friend once said to me “Is the word ‘encouragement’ even in your vocabulary?”
I was floored.
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When I did my cooking apprenticeship, there were quite a lot of European women that worked there as kitchen hands and cooks… sometimes I hear things they used to say in their voices and accents (given a reason to).
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