http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2005/10/28/a-boy-named-num-2/ Revitalizing Riddles, Mythic Story, Family, Village and Land. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:39:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2005/10/28/a-boy-named-num-2/#comment-47 martha Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:43:57 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2005/10/28/a-boy-named-num-2/#comment-47 When I was 23 I had a job bussing/hosting at a restaurant. A new girl started there. It was her first food service job and she was straight out of college. One night she said to me, " You know, I don't know if I can do this martha. I mean, these people only see me as a hostess, as their servant. They don't know me, they don't know I love to dance!" I had to laugh. I mean, I was thinking, " You don't want them to know anything about you! That's your only protection- the fact that they don't know anything about you." But afterwards I reflected on it and I realized up until that moment I had no idea how many walls I had put up over the course of my 8 years (now ten!) in customer service. your story illustrates beautifully how experience shapes personality. When I was 23 I had a job bussing/hosting at a restaurant. A new girl started there. It was her first food service job and she was straight out of college. One night she said to me, ” You know, I don’t know if I can do this martha. I mean, these people only see me as a hostess, as their servant. They don’t know me, they don’t know I love to dance!” I had to laugh. I mean, I was thinking, ” You don’t want them to know anything about you! That’s your only protection- the fact that they don’t know anything about you.” But afterwards I reflected on it and I realized up until that moment I had no idea how many walls I had put up over the course of my 8 years (now ten!) in customer service. your story illustrates beautifully how experience shapes personality.

]]> http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2005/10/28/a-boy-named-num-2/#comment-27 Julie Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:56:18 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2005/10/28/a-boy-named-num-2/#comment-27 Brilliant! Brilliant!

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