Who Are You Going To Let Ruin Your Day?

We come in contact with many people each day. Some of the circumstances of our encounters may be appointed or happenstance. But we bump into a lot of folks during each day.

I was having a little trouble with my laptop so I took it to the computer fix-it workers at one store. I had to wait in a slow line to talk to my assigned geek. The problem was that there were only two geeks behind the counter trying to help all of us. We, on the customer side of the counter became increasingly impatient. For once, not me.(I know. I was just as surprised as you are.) I just started watching the exchanges between customers and geeks. Wow, I have a new respect for computer nerds whose job it is to help the computer ignorant folks.

These two young men got blamed for:

1.    Not telling a lady ahead of time that if she wanted to exchange a cell phone, she had to actually bring in the cell phone before the store could exchange it for another. It took the geek 10 minutes to help her understand this concept. In the end she walked off in a huff because she would have to go back home and get the offending phone.

2.    Not having the computer to be fixed ready when the man came in. Although the store had notified him that his computer was not ready for pick up yet. He just determined that the fix-it people should be able to fit within his schedule disregarding all the other computers that came in ahead of his. It took the geek a little less time but he was called everything from “stupid” to a “#$%^&.” The man stomped out saying, “Well, I can only hope that you idiots will tell me when my computer is fixed!”

3.    Being told that the reason your laptop crashed was because you installed software not compatible with your laptop. Then being told by the patient geek that they could fix it but he would have to buy a new hard drive. The man was irate that he would have to spend his money to fix his mistake. That took 15 minutes of all of our time for him to understand that “if you break it, you buy it.”   

When my turn finally came I felt that I needed to apologize to these two men for the whole human race. If this happened within 30 minutes, what must their 8 hour day be like? I decided that broken computer owners have a hard time admitting their own operator error to computer smarties.

But my geek just smiled that patient gotta love em smile and said, “There are billions of people in this world. I have decided that I’m not going to let one ruin my day.” Wow, did I ever have an “Aha” moment. What a great philosophy.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15 and we beg you, brothers (and sisters,) admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with them all (be a Jesus geek.) See to it that you don’t give back evil for the evil that is given to you, but always seek to do good to everyone (even crazy broken computer owners.) * Yes the parenthesis remarks are mine.

If I can, with a Jesus attitude, admonish, encourage, help, be patient, let the junk people throw at me roll off, and seek to do good to everyone then I might just have a pretty good day.

There are billions of people in this world.

 I have decided that I’m not going to let one ruin my day.