Is your car OK?
But…
There were a few I told because there would be trouble if I didn’t!
I sent out a quick letting-you-know message to two of the people who needed to know. Simply because I knew I would be in trouble if they saw my damaged car and I had not told them.
The responses could not have been more different.
One responded with, “Are you OK?”
The other with, “Is your car OK?”
HMMM…
I answered the first right away. I didn’t want him to worry. And the whole reason I told him in the first place was because he would know anyway! He just always knows.
The second?
I just let it hover there.
Unanswered.
I really wasn’t sure how to answer him.
I mean, do I say, “Yes. My car made it just fine. Thanks for asking?”
To be honest, it stung just a little bit.
But a few minutes later he sent me a text at work that said, “Answer your E-mail.”
Yeah…we do each other that way!
And then I looked at my work E-mail and there was a message there too. Basically asking the same thing, in the same insensitive way.
But…
I stopped and thought it through.
I considered his consistency in checking.
And I just had to chalk it up to the fact that the man just didn’t know how to ask.
Because some people just don’t, y’all!
And I was glad I had not responded to his first message yet…
Yet, I tell you!
Y’all want to think I let that one go, but I did not!
After the text and the work E-mail, I went back to that first message of the day and replied, “The car is fine. I am sore.”
Then came the call!
I got my point across!
And you know, I could have gone ahead and answered him right off the bat.
But somewhere in there, it mattered to me the way he asked. Basic human kindness always matters to me.
And I can hold off on answering any questions until it is displayed!
But just for fun, today I will send him a message asking, “Is your car OK?”
