You don't like it but your customer might.

I HATE Standing Puppy and I LOVE Standing Puppy! Having written the description "Brown dog, red collar, blue eyes and red tongue with (insert child's name, possibly last initial here) on bottom" about a million times and having dipped packs of dogs at a time I can officially say that if I never dipped another puppy again I would be okey dokey artichokey with that. Now, this puppy is also an incredibly popular piece with children nationwide clamoring to get the puppies before they are all gone from the shelf. Even though we have seven back up cases in the back.
In business, it is important to remember that your customer's tastes will vary from yours and though you are not particularly fond of something your customers may love it! They will also pay premium prices and visit you again and again because of their tastes not yours.

Fused Candy Corn

Bad Deeds or Bad People?

Yesterday I had my car stolen. (Before you feel sorry for me, let me say that I had left the doors unlocked and the valet key was inside. I'll write a blog on "stupid deeds and stupid people" some other time.") Anyway, my car was really just borrowed, ransacked and left 8 blocks from my house.

After all the police reports I got in my car to drive it home. This is when the "feeling" sets in. The steering wheel is very low, the rear view mirror has been moved and the seat is too far forward. The car smells of someone who is not me. I felt a little invaded but also it brought to mind who this person was. Old, young? A vagrant or neighborhood kid? Drug addict or next door neighbor?

Good or bad?

That one hadn't come to mind until later. Though their deed was undesirable does this make them a bad person? Sometimes, but I think more often people make bad choices but aren't inherently bad people. Take our car thief. He could be a onetime fireman that lost his job and finds himself on the street or a metal wearing soldier that came back to no home or family. Good people, bad situations. Bad choices are definitely possible when people become desperate or scared.

So for now I am going to look at it this way. Good person, made a bad choice and I am moving on.

...Oh and I am locking my doors