Supporting our community
Friday, June 05, 2009
We all have had bad experiences and I understand that when you have a bad experience perception is real to you. I was at the bar when this happened. I liked how this lady started off in the bar with “do you know who I am!” It seemed to me that the “mop boy” she wanted to verbally abuse turned out to be the manager. Who, I felt, did a great tactful job at trying to defend himself to someone that was so quickly angered. It seemed that she was even more angered because she did not have anyone to brow beat and “notify” about being “un-assaulted” by a mop. Oh the horror and disgrace that I am sure that she wanted to spew to any ear that would bend about her experience. I also like how she is making it her personal mission to degrade the character of another person with her “status.” I also enjoyed how she got a friend to log in a “100% boycott an establishment” So basically she threw a fit, and because no one bowed down and kissed her “Prada’s” we all should ignore our own opinions and try to destroy a family business. I am not trying to insult this “lady” and I am trying to use restraint to be honest about the situation. But, I am offended. We all have businesses and we all are trying our best to support each other as a community. I actually was going to log on to thank Alex and Kyle for doing their part in supporting families and having a fundraiser for “Caitlins Cause.” I saw the banner and came back to support this family, that I don’t even know, because I felt that this was the right thing to do. When I read what this woman said it just bothered me. I witnessed this incident, and what she said just made me hang my head in disbelief and sadness. I cannot believe that a person would go so far to be a “rightfighter.” We are all in the same economic crisis and no one is better than anyone else. So please save the attitude that you are better than the rest of us to a low roar.
I can appreciate the fact that people have an opinion, but trying to degrade the character of one person because, you feel like you have the POWER to do so, is not helpful. How about this, we all support each other as a community, we use our POWER to make positive changes. The last thing that we need is for businesses in our wonderful small town to be closed because of absurd allegations such as this. As professionals we should be able to talk out or issues in a civil manner. I love the town of Apex, and I love the hometown feel of the people and the events that are offered here. I am so tired of bullies like this and their hateful ways in trying to make a negative impact on our businesses. I work for a competitor of Sparks but we all support each other. I don’t want to be fearful that a woman like this can come into my business and throw a fit and then have something like this show up on the message board. Lets all do our best at supporting our local businesses. I ask you fine people of Apex to use your own opinions and ignore people that have a person agenda of promoting negativity on our family businesses by personally attacking someone’s character.
Pros: Great food and LOTS of positive changes
Cons: being bullied on the message boards