you should have noticed the second you were irritated. Mack
--- In [email protected], "spider63" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I was wondering if any of you can help me with this question, by > suggesting a Zen-oriented solution (or soulution?). > > Perhaps all of us experience rude people when we go shopping? > > I went to a pet store, and I was watching an employee handling a couple of > lizards for a few minutes. He was the only one around. I said hello to him > when he finished. He walked away. Then he walked by me again. I asked him a > question. He walked by again. Then he came back to where he had originally > been working on the lizards and I was still standing there and again asked > him the same question. Once again he ignored me and continued to attend to > the lizards. A fourth time I addressed this person. Then I said, "Can you > hear me?" at a louder tone. He looked at me and then continued to work with > the lizards. I then said "Do you have a hearing problem, or are you just > rude?" The guy then said "Did you want something?" and I asked for the > manager, and he helped me out. > > As I drove away from the store, I felt pretty pissed off. > > My questions are: A) Should I have just left the store after it was apparent > the employee had an attitude? B) Should I have continued talking to him > after he was not responding? C) Should I have just visualized some peaceful > Zen saying and stood there pleasantly asking over and over again for some > help? D) Should I have complained to the manager (on Monday)? E) Should I > have assumed the Lotus position in the middle of the aisle and begun > chanting sutras (or singing Kumbaya)? > > What do you do? What would you do? > > No flames please. > > Thank you. > > Al Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
