People are very strange, misunderstandings, and first impressions

[jheadley 0]

I work at a dropzone that rents a hanger on a relatively busy municipal airport. There's a little gazebo with picnic tables and a coke machine that I hang out at on nice weather days to get on the internet on my laptop. I get a wireless connection from the medevac building, I've talked to them about it and they're fine with that.

Today a woman came up to me and told me that I had to unplug my computer from the electrical outlet in the gazebo. She said that she was the one who had to pay for the electricity and that I couldn't use it. I immediately pulled out my wallet and offered to pay her to use it (I actually pulled out a 10 dollar bill, for the couple cents of electricity I was actually using, to try to please her), I think that's fair enough for me to pay to use someone else's electricity. She refused and still just said I had to unplug it, in a very unnecessarily nasty manner, and then walked away.

Oh well, I just unplugged my computer, and stayed there for another 30 minutes or so running on battery power.

This woman never told me who she was, I don't know if she was the airport owner, or just rented a hanger, or what, but I plan to find out and try to talk to her about it in a reasonable manner. My first impression of her was basically "Wow, what a bitch", and I'm sure she doesn't think too much of me either, so that may be difficult. However I don't know her story, and she doesn't know mine, so really neither of us have no real idea what the problem is and the whole thing may just be a misunderstanding. For example, in the beginning the MedEvac guys thought I was just some random guy who came to the airport to steal their internet connection but when I explained to them that I work at the dropzone and live in a tent on the airport they were ok with me using their internet.

It's funny how you can develop an impression of someone in just a few seconds of meeting them, when you really know nothing about them. This woman really just acted like a bitch to me when she was yelling at me, but I bet that if we had met under different circumstances earlier she would have been a pretty nice person. I'm sure she has a family and friends who love her and think she's a great person.

I think it's like that a lot when people don't like each other. Some people are just complete douchebags, true, but I think most people are pretty good people and feelings of dislike just come from misunderstandings. I think if people could just communicate their thoughts and feelings better there wouldn't be as many fights and hard feelings. So tomorrow I'm going to try to find out who the airport owner is and see what is actually going on, instead of just coming to the conclusion that this woman is a big meany.