Male models and women in customer service (even if they happen to be post-graduates or writers) are supposed to be intelligence challenged. Example: two women, quite obviously well educated, or so their accents and vocabulary seemed to indicate, asked me, as I looked up from my Hospitality Desk, where in Panaji Goa was. I tried to explain, using the map on the wall behind me, that Goa was a state and Panaji its capital. Bluntly, one of them told the other to not pay attention to someone who was wasting their time. I did shut up, but quietly wrote about it in my column. In those days, my photograph went alongside the text: it was published two days later, and the ladies saw and read the piece. To their credit, they immediately came, apologized sheepishly and asked me more questions which I happily answered. "How come," they asked as a parting shot, "You write?" Quite often, my writer friends asked me the opposite: "How come you work in a hotel?"
Later, when I worked in a hospital, ... ah of that some other time.
Later, when I worked in a hospital, ... ah of that some other time.
People are always reluctant until they know our actual status and after that they normally show as if they never behaved rudely. This aspect of society teaches us a lot. Such experiences adds many things at our end. But such rudeness followed by "maska polish" later shows, real face of such people.
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