Screaming for Attention

Some people seem to scream for attention but get offended when they get it. The other day we had a customer bring a monkey into the store to shop with her. Yes, you read right, a MONKEY. If you bring an exotic pet out in public, I think you are asking to for people to pay attention to you. From the moment this woman arrived in the store, she was hateful to everyone that expressed interest in the monkey. One employee asked about the monkey and was told not to touch that it would bite her. Hmmm...maybe you should not bring it out if it will bite people. Does not seem fair of her to expose her pet to the stress of the public if it is incline to bite.

I was to amused to see her try to shop with a monkey. It looked like it might be worse that trying to shop with a toddler on a bad day. The monkey was trying to get into and grab everything.

Finally!!!

Meghan has been a member of her schools string program for four years. Each year they send 4 members to county festival. It is the equivalent of the all county that many of my contemporaries are familiar with. This is suppose to be the top 2 violinist from each group within the school. Meghan has auditioned every year knowing that regardless of audition scores that she would be unable to go because she was too young. Last year they changed the requirement from 4th grade to 5th grade so she had to wait another year. Well this year she gets to go. Meghan is excited.

Tomorrow I will chaperon the rehearsal session which will run during school hours for about 5 hours. On Feb. 27 they will have another rehearsal followed by a concert. I am looking forward to seeing her reach this next step that she has yearned for for several years.