[Magdalen] Grrr....

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I can imagine how that must have made you feel, and you did gud, not
getting caught up in this.  I play in a group, and sometimes I just wish I
could go home due to some attitudes, but of course I don't.

Maybe the positive vibes in your opus will exercise a positive change in
these people.  You never know.

And of course the best revenge (bad word! Slap the hand!) would be to
create a few hundred pieces identical to that one.  So one day they'll be
showing off their new wonderful thing, and another person will go, "Oh! You
mean, like THIS?" And pull out the same thing. "And we liked it so much we
gave one to our daughters too. Hey, Meghan!  Amber! Caroline! Dottie! Liz!
Felicity! Georgia! Show these nice people your jewelry!" And the girls all
hold up their own ...

Ah, but vengeance is not nice.



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:19 PM, 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
>