consignment and consignors… again

why am I so annoyed by these people? Even the ones who are my friends bug me. I spend time cleaning, displaying, labeling, wrapping and doting on their “craft” and all I get is “where is my check??” When they are being “interviewed” for the first time they are sweet as pie, “please only take what you want, price it how you want… giggle giggle” then 2 months down the line they are demanding, ignore the rules and are quite pushy to boot. “Make an appointment!” I ask over and over. Even if you are my best friend and have 2 things to log into the book… I may be with someone else, it may be a sale day, I may have gone home sick. Why can’t they call??? Then there’s one case of my good friend who is upset with me because (I think) I’m not too friendly when she comes up to the shop to put in her consignment, which is always a busy saturday afternoon. How do I convey to friends family etc that when I’m in work mode I can’t be chit-chatty unless there is absolutely nothing going on? My (family member) thinks I’m cold, a few others think I have become bitchy and “moody”.

I think I should go to their place of business, pull up a chair and while they are typing or talking on the phone I should just explain, in detail, the patterns of my menstrual cycle, I’m sure they’d be all ears.

do this: although you may ruffle a few feathers, say no to the crap carrying nomads who wander in unannounced. Be sweet, be stern, lie… set up some rules. argh! Dickens Carolers?!?! Who buys those??? is it because I’m younger that they think they can get away with that or are they just pushy by nature? you down with OPC (other people’s crap)… ya, you know me! I think I’ll post that on a wall in cursive glittery guilded writing. (It’s my journal… I can be corny if I want to).