Waiting Patiently

You know that moment out in the wild as a woman comic when your skillz really come in handy? Like say you’re at a male dominated business trying to get sh*t shaking. You start chatting up a salesman with some facts, figures and well thought out questions. Then another customer (a man), comes along and steps in front of you and immediately dominates the salesman, and you become completely f*cking invisible. So you wait about five minutes for the sales guy to correct the situation to the customer guy, but he doesn’t, because now he’s trapped in the rudeness, and since you’re a woman, he’s thinking you’ll probably just wait patiently. So you give it one more minute, because you really do like to play fairly. Then you finally lob out your zinger, making sure you don’t sound shrill in the process, even adding a neutral grin. Then the customer guy confronts you so you’ll back down. But you don’t budge, because it’s just not in your nature. Your grin turns a tad sly, as you effortlessly tag your zinger. You can see the ground shift underneath him, as he tries to process that you are actually a secure and functioning human being with a brain that is trying get some damn business done, just like he is. He then takes a step towards you and calls you a bitch, looking to the salesman guy to back him up. But the salesman just shrugs his shoulders, and agrees that you have a pretty good point. Then the customer guy storms off cursing and threatening to look for management. Then the salesman guy and you laugh, he apologizes, and you both fist bump, ending it with fingers flying high in a “daps explosion.” Yeah, so that just happened.