Mama Kat Thursday: Headaches
The Mama Kat topic for today is "Something that gave you a headache." In my case, I'm going with a figurative headache. The first thing that comes to mind as as a headache-giver is all the customers back when I used to work at a flower shop. I was a floral designer, which means I made the arrangements. I also answered the phone and dealt with customers directly over the counter---then the headaches would start. I don't believe that old adage about "the customer always been right." In fact, I frequently found flower buyers to have really over the top expectations far exceeding reality. At this particular shop, we designers were all part-time and all worked different days. Only the manager worked Monday through Friday and never on Saturdays if she could help it. The rest of rotated Saturdays. Invariably, Saturday was the favorite customer day for calling about an a billing issues or a complaints, neither of which I, simple designer, could n...