I sometimes get requests to make styles I've run out of; sometimes I can do it, other times not. And there are some styles I just won't do after a certain point.
But it can get a little hairy at times; I won't make promises to Customers unless I'm positive I can make what they ask for (re: a style I've run out of). If I can, then the person who asks first gets theirs, and the second one gets theirs next and so on.
Then I feel badly when I have to say no; but I can't overshoot myself.
You try to nail a spider who turns out to be a "jumper". He's on the wall, you go to get him, and he skittles down or falls off the wall. Then on the floor, he's one step ahead of you when you try to squish him with a paper towel.
You did a discount sale campaign at your Etsy store. You promoted it and specified the sale days all over social media. Just the day after, somebody has to contact you, "...but wasn't this suppose to be 20%, isn't it too pricey?"
You're trying to sleep and a mosquito buzzes by your ear (Bzzzzzz). You turn on the light, he's gone. Turn off the light, there he is again; by your ear. Once in a while you get lucky and whack him.
...when you spent time, dedication and skills to prepare the perfect, superb and fancy dinner, and one of your kids arrives with fast food meals for everybody for dinner.
When you're dancing a slow dance with a relative, and you are trying to lead while they are at the same time. It's sort of like reeling in a large fish on the line.
Don't you just love it when you have a vintage product listed for three years. One of your daughters asks for it, so you give it to her. The next week, somebody contacts you via Etsy and asks very angry, What happen to that product I save it in my favorites? Why did you sell it? I wanted to buy it!"
Back in the high school years... you had to read a book and write a report about it. You procrastinated the reading. The day before you started to read the book at the speed of light, aunt Non-of-your-business had to visit for extended hours, the next door neighbor dropped her cyclone kid in order you baby sit the kid -the neighbor did not even ask, she just drop the kid, your mother made you to do certain housework you were not supposed to do, the drama queen classmate had to call you at the evening. Finally, everybody left, there is peace and quiet to continue the book reading at night and... there was a power failure.
I was in elementary school. We went out to recess, after a rain. There were two merry go rounds. I walked over to the stand up one; the safety squad girl said, "It's closed" (rather snooty tone). I backed up and quickly stuck my tongue out (she didn't see). I walked over to the sit down merry go round (other kids were on it). The principal came up to me and SQEEEEZED my cheeks. Said she saw me stick my tongue out (must have had eyes like an eagle; I did it quickly). I was grounded for a week. (I was a very good kid; just didn't think anyone saw me stick out my tongue, but wanted the satisfaction of KNOWING I did it....WRONG).
Finally, there was the day you could go to the new ice cream parlor. You bought a delightful ice cream tower cone. You are walking and licking it when... a mother passes next to you and her twister baby had to wave his arms and destroy your ice cream tower. The mother gets mad at you for not paying attention where do you walk.
You buy a second ice cream tower cone. This time, a bird flies fast and blows your ice cream cone. The third time, a girl with long hair walks next to you and the wind blows her hair on your ice cream tower. Well, is that a "bad hair day?"
You are taking the paper job applications and checking them while the applicants are at the stand. One person's last name has to be Carrot and has orange hair. Another person's last name is Green and has the hair die in green color.
I couldn't believe it, but it happened. In a day, in three different occasions a car puts itself in the lane in front of me. The situation when a car changes of lane and abruptly forces into the next lane. It happened twice on the road and third one at McDonald's.
