Real Girl In The City

My daddy is mad at me because I didn’t clean out the refrigerator. How silly of a statement is that for a 30-something independent woman to say? Yet it is the truth. And it isn’t just because I didn’t clean out the refrigerator but because I didn’t do it in what he termed a timely manner; in other words the moment that he asked. But it is sometimes hard with the little things to know what need to be done right away and what can wait. With the big things you know right of the top of your head. Like if someone is bleeding extensively you call 911 or if there is a car accident you call the police and if there someone is on fire they stop, drop, and roll. Yet when the small things happen when are we suppose to stop, drop and roll?

Admittedly I don’t have the same priorities as my dad. Some would think that is a bad thing and some would thing it is okay but it’s just the way the chips got stacked. To me cleaning out the refrigerator at 10 in the morning when trash doesn’t pick up until the next day is not a stop, drop and roll sort of thing but to him it is. Yet to me the electricity going out just because it is hot outside and not being able to be online is a stop, drop, and roll thing but to him it isn’t. I know that I spend way more time on the internet then I should (and this is so a topic for another blog) but it is how I communicate with a lot of my friends and clients. It is how I make money and it is just plan fun. The point is that when it comes to little things everyone has a different priority. So how do you know what to do?

What I am learning is that it is just that: learning. Everyone is not the same and no one can be in anyone’s head but them. So you just have to take it one moment at a time or one argument at a time. You have to learn to stop, drop and roll not only according to your time but others as well. Think about it; you’re at work and your boss comes out and asks you to book a flight for him and his wife to Jamaica. Yes you are busy typing up the notes that he said he needed ASAP but do you really want to tell him you don’t have the tickets when he come back out. You could even do retail (which I am far too familiar with). If a customer calls and tells you she needs a skirt for a dinner that she is having in a week she expects you to find it that day not the day before her dinner party. Never mind that it is two weeks before Christmas and you have 12 customers in front of you waiting to be rung out; she wants you looking for that skirt right then. Thus is the way of the world.

We live in a right now society and to everyone their problems or questions are always a stop, drop, and roll thing whether it is big or small. Does that mean we are always going to stop what we are doing and jump on their band wagon? Of course not. We have our own stop, drop and roll things to consider. It just means that at least we are prepared for the fall out and in the end isn’t that why we roll.

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