[Magdalen] Grrr....

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

GOOD ONE ! ! !

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 10:33 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
>