Thread: I'm doing it again...

...I'm showing signs of getting old!!

So, I am at a pizza joint working on their conveyor pizza oven while talking to the owner, a 22 year old kid who talks like a gangster from New Jersey! Actually a very nice kid who puts up a facade to hide the fact that he is scared as hell and hasn't the vaguest idea of what he is doing! His uncle set him up, gave him a few pointers, and then said sink or swim! I think he'll swim!
Anyways, his mother is in the kitchen while we are talking, looking very shy, when I here the Kid say F#@% this, and F@#$ that! Without even thinking about it, or considering the damage that I might be causing to our business relationship I looked the kid in the eye and said " You watch your mouth around your mother!" The kid looks embarrassed and tells me that his mother doesn't understand English, but the look on his mothers face was just beaming at me! She knew her boy had been corrected! Later on I told the boy that it didn't make a wit of difference whether his mother understood or not, she deserved the respect of her station! He again looked embarrassed, but didn't excuse himself this time!
I don't know yet whether I made a friend or lost a customer, but I knew at that moment that I am heading towards old codger status! I like it!!


Anybody else on their way to old fart??