So yesterday the blogger lady was kind enough to link to me when she was guest blogging at Instapundit. And I had the resulting instalanche of page views when people followed the links. It was to the story about the lady who wanted a refund on her purchase of clothes that she had wore at her niece's Communion instead of store credit. I got a lot of new comments and a lot of interesting viewpoints.
One of them in particular interested me was by Carol Herman who said:
"By the way, she's LOCAL. Your story is now all over the Internet! People who read this in Brooklyn, probably know your store. And, if so, they probably know the "local" restaurant, as well."
Now that might be true. Even though I use a non de plume because my real name is the same as a very famous person in New York, many people know who I am and have contacted me at the store. Commenters as diverse as Pogo and Ritmo have got in touch and a few have come by to say hello. But I think people who comment on blogs and spend a lot of time on the net overestimate the importance of what they are doing. When I mention blogs to most people they have no idea what I am talking about. Even big time blogs like Instapundit or Althouse or Ace of Spades are not on their radar. They have no idea what I am talking about. When we went to the Thai restaurant last night I was talking about it to all the people there and not one of them had ever heard of Instapundit let alone my little pop stand. I think people take themselves and their opinions way too seriously.
That in essence was what that lady in the original post did at the store. She pulled the "Don't you know who I am card." The answer to that is always the same. "Yes I know who you are....an asshole." Some of the comments on closed shops like boringheads have such an over the top pompous sense of their importance that is just laughable. Get over yourselves douchenozzles. As Brother Mattihas used to say "Hey there are about a billion Chinamen who don't care what you think moron." You can't take yourself too seriously. Life is too short. When you flounce off like a diva you can't honestly expect anyone to give too shits. There are way too many things going on in this world for anybody to be paying attention to what you have to say.
So the Instalanche was very nice. But I think my blog has a somewhat limited appeal. Not everybody gets it. Or likes it. But that's OK.
Just know one thing. No refunds. Only store credit.
