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SunnyDaysDontLie · December 2010

So in foods, we are doing a holiday lunch for the teachers during all lunch periods. We prepared the food, and we will serve the food. I enjoy helping my foods teacher out. She was hit by a car when she was around 3, and due to that one of her legs is longer than the other, she limps, and she recently fell down last year and has another crack in her one knee. Due to the fact that she has had many surgeries from age 3, she doesn't want to have this knee replaced when she's already had two done. And I don't blame her. So, as the saying goes, idle hands are the devil's playground. My hands have not been idle at all today, in between doing my homework in class, writing my honors paper, and helping my foods teacher out. We had to put table cloths on the table. The theme is blue and white, so I'm trying to hurry up and get this done due to lack of time, and I couldn't stay after today to help, due to my foods teacher having a meeting directly after school. I pick up someone's purse, and I place it on a -clean looking- section of floor where it cannot get stepped on and come to harm. That's my version of courteous. I was unaware that this was a Coach purse. Now, most Coach purses are all leather exterior. Easy to clean, easy to care for. Expensive, though. "GIRL WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM YOU DON'T PUT NO 378 DOLLAR COACH PURSE ON THE FLOOR!" My most expensive purse is a cloth Vera Bradley. Something I can turn inside out and throw into the wash if it gets dirty. As I said, I had no clue this was a Coach purse, I was just trying to help my teacher out so she wouldn't have to be late to her meeting, etc. "Well I..." "NUHUH GIRL DON'T YOU TALK TO ME! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T CALL THE POLICE ON YOU! You are DISMISSED." I am not kidding you. I didn't skip a part in the story. That is what followed what. I wish I could tell you guys the actual response running through my head, but I can't. So instead, I said "I am very sorry I set your purse on the floor. If anything got on it, go and buy some $5 saddle soap at the store. It is 100% leather, the purse will clean up and be soft and smell good." While in the process of being interrupted, because, oh hey, I forgot, I've been DISMISSED. Ohh, I'm shaking in my Sperry's. I'm terrified. -_- So I'm shaking walking away from them, because, like my mom, I am on the verge of tears. Not because my feelings have been hurt. Not because I'm upset, or afraid. But because I would like to chew her out. And I couldn't. And it pissed me off. I can understand that kind of anger if it got stepped on and a $400 smartphone or something got broken, or if the purse got a rip. The thing was sitting on the floor for all of 2 minutes, too, sheltered, and I made sure no one took anything from it, etc. She sets the damn thing on the floor herself, anyways. Ingrate. So I'm shaking, and my foods teacher [we're pretty good friends], who noticed I was, is like, "Kaytee, calm down. It's not worth it." And she's right. I really need to learn how to bite my tongue when it comes to things like this, and I guess it was practice. xD But next time the twit needs something from me, I don't hear a thing. ;]

Patty · December 2010

Oo...talk about over reacting!

tarnish · December 2010

I don't think I'd like my very expensive purse on the floor even if it did look clean. I tend not to touch other peoples' purses, it just feels weird. I usually ask whos it is so they can move it if it's in the way. o.0;

SunnyDaysDontLie · December 2010

See, Tarn, I was unaware that it was an expensive purse, because it looked like my twenty dollar XOXO purse. I didn't see the little Coach tag on it. And, out of habit, when I'm busy, I don't see what I'm doing, only that I need to do it. So, by sitting her purse down on the floor [which she does herself, by the way. It wasn't the ultimate sin, because I've seen her put that purse on the floor], It was subconscious. I just now read my post and forgot to say that I thought that we were friends, or at least on each other's good side. I had classes with this girl last year, and she seemed like an OK person, friendly to most people, including me. So, yes, my fault. I accidentally set a four hundred dollar purse down on the floor. Which she does often. Often as in, every single day five times per foods class. Wtf ever. I seriously don't care anymore. Out of habit, I set a purse down on the floor. I did what I thought was necessary to do what my mind was set on, and that was put a table cloth over the table and stuff the cups with napkins and fix the centerpiece. So instead of being polite, she flipped out. I wouldn't be so irked had she [kindly] told me that her purse was a Coach, and to not touch it/not set it on the floor for _______ reason.

Bookryder1 · December 2010

Was the purse owner a teacher or a student?

SunnyDaysDontLie · December 2010

bookryder wrote:

Was the purse owner a teacher or a student?

A student. My teacher's the one who was telling me to calm down.

RoyalRaccoon · December 2010

I only have 1 expensive bag, and I know I would be quite mad if someone set it on the floor, but it's covered in springbok, which is a lot easier to damage than leather, BUT that's why I don't take it to school, or leave it laying around when I am using, because the risk it's worth it to me. That girl shouldn't be taking something like that to school, if it's that important to her. Maybe it's just me, but I'll never understand why people take expensive things, beyond textbooks, to school. Anyways, I think you did what most people would do, and then handled the situation splendidly. The only thing that would have been better would have been asking out loud "Who owns this purse?" before touching it, but I honestly think most people would have done exactly what you did, especially while at school, because no one figures someone brought a $400 bag to school. I'm proud of you for letting it go, because arguing wouldn't have been worth it, no matter how much you wanted to.

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