[Magdalen] Grrr....

[Grace Cangialosi]

And I guess with heads, it's not like you can spit in the soup!

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 10:25 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Argh. I know EXACTLY how that feels. One wants to put a wee curse on them
> so they burn the necks/wrists of those who wear them. But we are
> professionals who smile politely (and occasionally spit behind their backs,
> eh?) and wish them a good day.
> 
>> On Tuesday, August 2, 2016, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I need to whinge and fume.
>> 
>> As many of you know, I make jewelry (hi Jay!).  Unlike Jay, my stuff is
>> strung beads.  I sell at a lovely shop in Alexandria Bay, NY, called Bay
>> House, an artisans'/artists' co-operative.  I work shifts there, like most
>> of the other members, and I was on duty this afternoon.
>> 
>> Last week, I took in a set I was especially happy with: rhombus
>> (square-on-diagonal) cinnabar beads with Czech druk beads (glass) and seed
>> beads:  necklace and matching earrings and bracelet.  I don't have a
>> picture of it, more's the pity.  But it was a lovely little thing.  I sold
>> it this afternoon to a couple from Ohio.
>> 
>> Normally, it's a joy to sell my stuff: partly to get it out of the shop so
>> I can make more, and partly because it's like giving a kitten to a good
>> home.  But while I was ringing up the sale, the buyers got into a
>> conversation with other customers, about the current U.S. political scene,
>> and it turned out they were ardent Hilary-slandering liberal-media-bashing
>> frothing Trumpites. (Although even so, she expressed the wish that he'd
>> shut his mouth. Dream on, lady.)
>> 
>> I am a professional.  I did not snatch my lovely little cinnabar set back
>> from their undeserving hands and bellow "you can't have it!" I completed
>> the sale, took their money, and bade them goodbye pleasantly.  But I'm
>> still fuming.
>> 
>> I just bought a whole bunch of those cinnabar beads from Panda Hall and I
>> am going to recreate the set and sell it to someone who deserves it.  So
>> there.
>> 
>> Grrr.
>> 
>> Molly
>>