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Have you ever lost your s**t?
I was recently out with my best girlfriend and she suggested we go into a specific store.
“Oh, I can’t go in there,” I told her. “Honestly, I can’t ever go back in there.”
I explained why. I couldn’t go back into this specific store because I had pulled a Helena Guergis. If you don’t know who she is, she is that politician who lost her s**t at an airport and made headlines across Canada for doing so. (And then made bigger headlines for bigger problems.)
As I explained to my friend that day, I had been in the store and, quite frankly, the service was so appalling that I couldn’t NOT say something. Generally, if service is bad, I’d just walk out. But, this time, I’m not sure if I was PMSing, or was just having a bad day, or it was their attitude, but I really lost my S**T and kind of told them off. OK, I didn’t just kind of tell them off. I actually swore. And I don’t really swear all that much.
Needless to say, I was mortified at my behavior, even though I still stand by my conviction that the staff was more mortifying as sales clerks. Not only were they not helpful, they didn’t even bother to be helpful. When I asked a question, the sales clerk said, “I’m going on break now.” And that’s when I lost my S**T. Anyway, I can never go back into the store, which I didn’t want to do anyway. But even if I wanted to, I could never bring myself to. I’m too embarrassed.
So I suggested to my friend that we go to the same store but at another location.
“Oh, I can’t go to that one,” she said. Why? Well, it turns out my friend lost her S**T at the other location. We burst out laughing when we realized that, between the two of us, we couldn’t go to either store because we had both had mini tantrums.
I have to say I did feel slightly bad for Helena Guergis. (I feel worse for the people she treated badly.) But I do understand that she may have just been having a bad day when she had her adult tantrum at the airport.
This is only because we all have these days, and they're usually a learning lesson. (I have a feeling Guergis will always be nice at airports for the rest of her life.)
Have you ever lost your S**T at a store, therefore banning yourself from ever being able to go back, from sheer embarrassment? Do tell.