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Post by spike99 on Jul 5, 2007 22:14:06 GMT -5
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For the last few weeks, my office work has been "over exploding", home maintenance items have been "over exploding" and our seasonal camp site maintenance items have been "over exploding". Our primary vehicle broke down and it took $700 to breath life back into it. In addition to that, my wife has been nagging me to do this, to do that, and gotta do other urgent things. Stress, stress, stress. As you can tell, a loud GGRRRR is putting it mildly.
Today, my wife was nagging (yes, nagging) at me to do something that she thought would take me under 10 minutes to complete. Knowing different, I threw this task back at her. She simply had to call 5 different stores and get a financial estimate on a special order part. Something we need at our seasonal camp site. After being "on the phone" for almost an hour with 2 different stores, she came to me and was suddenly really sweet. She said that she only got 2 financial estimates and will try to get the remaining estimates tomorrow. Yes, it took 30 minutes to chat with each parts dept specialist, go through their different products and pick the proper product - for our specific needs. If each store had a web page with product listing with drill down pictures, she could have done the product model / price comparison online.
Since then, my wife has been very calm to me. Guess seeing one's situaiton from "different shoes" (re: this really isn't a 10 minute task at all) really does open one's mind. If you start getting angry at your spouse for them taking "too long" to do something, do try to see the situation from the other person's perspective. That task may not be as easy as it looks, or it really can be done later. That saying of "one should seek and understand before re-acting is the foundation to a calm life" comes to mind.
Hope this "lesson learned" helps others...
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Post by LindaNY on Jul 7, 2007 20:57:20 GMT -5
It's good to hear your wife learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes
"simple" tasks are not at all simple.
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Post by spike99 on Jul 12, 2007 21:56:04 GMT -5
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Today, I finally got around to visiting my local RV Dealer to "buy the part" my wife hunted down for me. I drop in and the store manager starts to punch the part number into his computer. He suddenly stops and looks at me with a shock look on his face. He quoted the wrong part number and its associated selling price to my wife. Surprisingly, he punches in a few more numbers and says "wholesale cost plus shipping and its yours". Puzzled, I asked how much more compared to the cheap "other product" he quoted my wife a few days ago. He says, $10.00 more. I bought this much better product (for $10 more) and was "out the door" like the lady running away from IKEA Store. His mistake of mis-quote saved us over $80 - compared to its normal selling price.
The final concusion of today's event has nothing to do with the subject of this post. Just wanted to share that even this initial emotional experience did have a happy (very happy) ending for my wife. re: She got a much better product and it was only $10 more then its cheap "other product".
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Post by cheryl on Jul 13, 2007 10:03:27 GMT -5
Don't ya just love it when stuff goes well like that -   |
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