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“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.
‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’
‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’
‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
ugly sobbing
Truly one of the best children’s books ever written.
So my friend who isn’t on Tumblr told me this beautiful story that needs to be heard. (Posted with her permission).
A few years ago she worked at a little hole in the wall franchise liquor store here in AB, Canada. The staff received a notice from management stating that they suspected AGLC (Alberta Gaming & Liquor Commision) was going to be doing some ‘secret shopping’ in the area to fine liquor stores who weren’t checking for ID, and that as such they were to ID every single customer without exception. (Having worked at a liquor store myself, this would suck, but it beats getting a personal fine and pissing the boss off getting them a big fine as well).
So one day my friend is on shift and her horrible manager/franchise owner who no one liked comes in to purchase a bottle. My friend asks for ID. This ensues:
Friend: Can I see some ID?
Manager: I didn’t bring it with me. Just ring me up.
Friend: Sorry, as per your memo I can’t do that. I need to see ID for every customer. No exceptions.
Manager: Friend, ring me up. Now. Or you’ll be written up.
Friend: Sorry, no can do manager. You were very explicit we ID everyone. You should have known to bring yours.
Manager: Obviously that doesn’t apply to me. I own the store. Ring me up or you’re fired.
Friend: Guess I’ll leave then…
So my friend drops her apron and starts walking to the door, and her manager lunges for her and grabs her and starts yelling in her face about how she’s fired and going to be banned from every franchise store for life due to insubordination blah blah blah. Then, out of nowhere, a plainclothes cop cuffs the manager and she gets arrested for assault.
As it turns out, in the line behind psycho manager was not only a plainclothes officer but an AGLC employee. In the end, the AGLC employee fined the manager over $10 000 and she was fired by the franchise for the incident and banned from even entering one of their stores again, in addition to the suspended sentence and community service time she was sentenced to for assaulting her staff member.
