One Shallowly Good thing and One Annoyance

Well, yesterday we went to this local street fair and I ran into an old boss.  This is a woman who, inadvertently, made my life miserable.  My husband and I both worked for her in different capacities, and she always made it clear she didn’t think he was “good enough for me.”  Mind you, this goes back more than twenty years since my husband and I will be celebrating our twentieth next month.  LOL Our marriage made it longer than hers (at least her first.  Her second began AFTER our first, but maybe that’ll last.)  Anyway, she was my boss at various times for almost the entire twenty years I stayed at that company.  By the end of my time there I not only had no respect for her any longer, I actually disliked her intensely.. disdained her.  (as did many others)  She left the company within a year or two of my leaving it.

Anyway, it was great running  into her because one of my little daydreams has been to run into her and have her see how “well” I’m doing.  She’s sort of surface-y and shallow and judges a lot by the way things look.  So, we ran into her at the street fair and, pleasantly, I had nothing but fairly good feelings about her.  You know, the bad begins to dissolve with time and it’s been about six years since I quit.  So, there I am, with my weight loss YAY! My tan YAY! My daughter was with me and her handsome husband.  My husband and son were there looking great.  I told her that I was working in the church (she once commented to someone that I had TOO MUCH faith) part time and housewife part time and that we had bought in *** (a prestigious suburb).  I did say it was just a small condo, though… didn’t want to intentionally mislead her.  Told her my husband was working for the big organization where he’s employed and that I had worked in law as well for a couple of years, creating trusts, and estate planning documents as well as doing real estate law, and that one of HER old bosses was a client there.  It gave me great satisfaction… like the fulfillment of a dream!!!  What a wonderful moment THAT was.

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While I’m here, just briefly… the whole TOO MUCH faith thing took place after our fire. (We lived through a huge apartment fire years ago.)  We were looking for an apartment after the fire.  I prayed and prayed and we looked in the paper and found a great apartment, first visit.  It was clean and roomy and in a MUCH better neighborhood.  My boss (and I didn’t really think this was a bad point, per se) always sort of involved herself in everybody’s lives.  She thought I was silly for taking the first apartment I found.  I explained that it was an amazing apartment in a wonderful neighborhood.  I told her I had prayed for it and God answered.  That’s when she told a friend of mine (who later went on to become Pastor B that I refer to in my entries) that I had “too much faith.”  LOL wrong person to tell THAT to.

Anyway, my ex-boss went over to the neighborhood where I was getting my apartment and checked out all the other apartments available in the neighborhood.  Lo and behold, all the rents were about 25% higher than the rent I had gotten, yet none of the apartments were any better!  (Hey, at least she TOLD me all this!) 

I love that story!