Patience and STAMPS

I hope you all had a fine weekend, mine was nice, thank you for asking, although not long enough, you know, but isn't that the way it always seems to go, hmmm? We wait all week for the weekend, wishing each day would go by faster so the weekend would be there already, and finally it's Friday, but then suddenly, before you can even exhale, it's Monday again. (oops; and now it’s TUESDAY! Only four more days until the weekend!!)

I bought stamps at the grocery store the other night, and the girl hands me Christmas stamps with a picture of someone named Mary on them, and I took one look at them and I asked her if there was any other design she had and she said no, two seventy eight is your change, have a nice evening. So I went over to the front desk and asked the manager if there were any other stamps I could have as I CANNOT use these Christmas stamps on Bar Mitzvah Thank You notes, and he smiled and said yeah, I can see your point, and he got me some stamps with little dreidels on them.

Why couldn’t the girl have said something like, “I’m sorry sir, I don’t have any other stamps, but if you take them over to our Customer service desk I’m pretty sure the manager can switch them for you.”

Are most 16 and 17 year olds today this uncaring? Or stupid? Or is it that it’s just that I just seem to keep running into those that are? I’m pretty sure there are intelligent teenagers around today (I have two of them at home) I just don’t seem to see much of them.

Or is it just me and I have no patience anymore?

Our lines are open and operators are standing by.