Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for August 22, 2023

take your whole millisecond

On one hand, it seems like she doesn’t care that someone else doesn’t like her attitude. On the other hand, she did go through all the trouble to announce it – so it seems like she does care (in an “I’m proud of it sort of way.”).

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” Brian Tracy

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”Charles R. Swindoll

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”Michael Jordan

Warning: Do Not Give Retail Workers Your Attitude When It’s Their Last DayI used to be a shift leader in a pizza place. We had this regular who was very rude. The first time I helped him, he ignored me when I read his order back to him, so he didn’t know that there was one part of his order I didn’t hear. When it came time for him to collect his pizzas, he gave me an earful about how bad I was at my job to screw that up, and how he wasn’t going to tip as a result. Most people didn’t tip, so that didn’t bother me half as much as he thought it did.Fast forward three years. It’s my last day. This guy has come in on a regular basis. He calls me “girly” even though I’m a fully grown middle-aged woman, and he is just generally rude and condescending. Today is no exception. As I’m finishing taking his order, he makes a remark about how I’d “better get everything right, or no tip”. Normally, I’d just say, “Yes, sir,” and continue on my way. But it is my last day. So, I stop and look him straight in the eyes.Me: “[Customer], I don’t give a s*** about the tip.”He is taken aback for a moment by my language because I never, ever swear in front of customers. Customer: “Sure, you do! You people all care about that!” Me: “No, I don’t. If that was all I cared about, I’d be disappointed, because only maybe one in four customers actually tips. If how hard I worked depended on that, I’d never work hard.

Time’s up.

Better now?

Tell them, “In the immortal words of Scarlett O’Hara, I’m just gonna weep into my pillow every night!”

…..don’t think she cares.

Like we care Aunty.

Never let other people’s actions or opinions interfere with the emotion you choose to have.

When people ATTEMPT to insult me, I sometimes give them a cheery “Thank you for expressing your opinion.” Most don’t know how to come back to that.

Sometimes I do choose to have anger. It’s a good motivator to remind me to do things like write a letter to the local newspaper. Once I accomplish that task, I drop the anger. Mission accomplished.

That’s not to say that I cannot hold a grudge. I still have not forgiven the Dodgers for leaving Brooklyn.

My comfort zone has a few cactus in it. So what.

You have an attitude?

Huh..

Guess one should pay more attention.

Guess that’s why so many people drink. To drown their self pity.

Same here.

I do not expect to like everybody any more than I expect everybody to like me. I also don’t expect to like everything about anybody. There are so many people now, plenty to enjoy and plenty to just leave alone. People are so complex sometimes :D

There’s only one answer to this: hug fight!

And play the tiniest violin.

The sarcasm is strong with this one.

Now, Aunty, have you been reading the comments on GoComics?

I still have some genuine Grace Hopper nanoseconds around here somewhere.