Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

Melanie J. McLane, ABR, CRB, CRS, ePRO, GRI, RAA, SRES, 32 year veteran of the real estate industry. Offering training, speaking and consulting throughout the industry, I teach everything from ABR to USPAP. Certified ePRO Instructor. To contact me, email me at: melanie@TheMelanieGroup.com or visit my website: www.TheMelanieGroup.com

Sigh! Another week, another set of poor manners to affront me. I love technology. Let me say at the outset that technology has made my life, and your life, so much easier.  But, it shouldn't be a license to be rude. Things I saw this week: a man and a woman, at a restaurant, for lunch, seated on the same side of a booth table. Romantic? Hardly--she gabbed the entire lunch to some friend--about truly inconsequential things (I know because I, like everyone else in the restaurant, could hear her entire conversation).  Next day--place--our house--situation--the landscapers arrived. My husband went out to (kindly) tell the workers that we had cold bottled water and soft drinks in the garage refrigerator, and they should help themselves. At least that's what he wanted to tell them. The foreman wouldn't quit yakking on his cell phone long enough to hear. For all the foreman knew, my husband was going to say: "We've changed our mind and want an ornamental pear instead of the weeping cherry", but he never found out. Then there's my childhood friend, whose name I won't use, to protect our friendship.  She's the queen of: "Hold on, I have another call coming in." This happens whether I call her land line or her cell. Either way, sometimes she gets back to me...sometimes I just hang in limbo, knowing that whoever was on the other line was obviously more titillating that I am.  And finally, to relate it to our industry, it's the agents who take calls from Buyer B when they are with Buyer A. Sorry, you are just not important enough for my undivided attention. Sigh!

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