Putting my hand up

Posted February 1, 2006 * Comments(3)

Do you ever find yourself standing behind someone in a queue, at an information desk, who’s asking a question and the person they are asking doesn’t understand what they mean? So yesterday, I’m standing there listening to the confusion taking place, biting my tongue, wanting to jump right in there and answer the question – I think it must be a kick back to all those times at school when I didn’t have the nerve to put my hand up. I stand there patiently listening and then my need to ‘bring understanding’, gets the better of me and I start explaining and the person whose job I’ve now started doing gives me this go away look… but it’s OK, because my satisfaction/smugness overrides his pure hate.

3 Comments so far

  1. Anonymous on February 1st, 2006

    Yes, and nearly always I do what you did. As well as helping out, it’s a matter of practicality and efficiency . The person needing the info gets the info, the queue moves along more quickly and it’s too bad what the person supposed to be helping the public thinks.
    (Until they give you the wrong info…)

    J

  2. ra on February 3rd, 2006

    god I’m ALWAYS doing that. I think I’m getting old, I engage complete strangers in gratuitous conversations too!

  3. Melissa on February 8th, 2006

    Hey I do that too! Getting old too???

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