A little back ground on me first, those of you that read my blog regularly know I am about 5'8" and about 230 pounds. I am working on the weight thing. I am Hispanic and since I was twelve have had facial hair and I mean ab lot like a five o'clock shadow at eleven in the morning, not a trait I am proud of and one I wish I didn't have. Nobody other than my friend FO knows about me and I present as very male, you could find a B2 bomber on radar before you figure me out. It comes from years of hiding in plain sight.
So on to the thing that happened yesterday, a very attractive woman walked into the store having battery issues with her device. She was wearing a blue fitted long sleeved button up shirt and black slacks. She was curvy but not overly so a very pleasant shape, everything I wished I was. All the sales reps were busy so I wound up asking her what she needed through the glass that separates the sales area from our tech room. She explained her battery problem and asked if we could help. I stated we could and would help her out I asked her if her billing address was correct so could send her a battery, she said it was. I completed the transaction and told her when it would arrive, then told her about our customer satisfaction survey. I felt the interaction was positive and gentle reader this is a metric I get paid on. I am telling you all this information to illustrate that we had been talking for over five minutes. After I mentioned the survey she stated (in quotes folks) "Yes ma'am you'll get a good score from me I always come to this store everyone is so nice." . We both looked at each other and laughed she apologized and I said jokingly I get that all the time and laughed it off. Keep in mind there is no way I could ever be mistaken for female. Inside my heart was doing little flips all day and a bad day turned better, sometimes its the little things that get you through the day.