lesson number 762: think before you walk
July 3rd, 2007
As I walked away, I started laughing as I was reminded of my first encounter with a bank’s salesperson. I was a dow-eyed nineteen-year-old who had just started a job downtown as a part-time secretary for a construction firm that was renovating a historic building in Detroit; it was my first “real” job and I felt pretty cockstrong as I was one of the only women on site and as such, I was given the royal treatment (reality hit later, but for a first official job, it was an awesome experience). Although I had no idea what I was doing as I had never been inside a bank before as a customer, I walked into the bank that day with a confident stride and a lot of checks in hand. I proceeded to open a checking account, and during the course of that process, didn’t fail to notice that the young salesman who waited on me was quite good looking and that he was starting to flirt with me. When he brought up that he knew me from my coffee shop job as the girl behind the barista (the coffee shop was located kitty-corner from the bank), my feminine ego started to rise. My confident demeanor and feminine charms were going along well until he asked me when my shifts were so he could come see me, and in my naiveté and inexperience, I remember being so flustered, that as I left his office, I walked straight into the door post. Duly embarrassed, and my ego bruised, I sheepishly turned around, hoping he had been momentarily blinded and thus somehow didn’t notice my error. I immediately proceeded to walk into the next wall, well aware that he was standing there, watching me with a knowing grin.
Fighting the urge to flee the building, I held my head high and pretended that I had not just walked into two walls in the span of ten seconds, and I thanked God under my breath for automatic teller machines.
-Christen Patterson
July, 2007
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