I didn’t really have any idea what I was going to blog about up until about 4:30pm this afternoon. I was at work, close to finishing up for the day. The desk where I sit has a mirror hanging on the wall about 4 feet in front of me. This mirror is positioned so that when someone walks into our office I can see them, since my back is to the door. I have a co-worker, we’ll call her Sally for the sake of her privacy, that sits to my left and she is the main greeter in the office. I noticed two young women enter the office building. My initial thought was, who are these girls and what are they selling. I knew immediately they were not patients at our office. I was in the middle of checking out a patient and so I did not hear the short conversation between the two young women and Sally. Approximately 15 minutes went by and I saw the same to young women entering another building in our office complex. That reminded me that I wanted to know what they were doing in our office. I asked Sally and she proceeded to tell me that they were just asking for a business card. I thought that was quite strange, I asked Sallie, why they wanted a business card. She was unsure and didn’t think much of it. She said “maybe they were looking for a new doctor?” When I told her that I just saw them enter another building her response was, “oh, maybe they are gathering cards to do a mass mailer of some sort.” I found it interesting that Sally was so willing to just give out our business card, no questions asked. Had I been the one to greet them I would have asked the girls the same questions I asked Sally. Here we go again with my stereotyping. Why was I having such an issue with these two young women, I mean all they wanted was a business card, right? So many things were running through my mind, what fraudulent activity could these young women do with this business card of ours? Sally did not think anything of the interaction she had with the two girls. (As I was sitting there at my desk thinking of several reasons why I was judging these two women, the chapter 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality in Women’s Lives, came to mind, which is how this story relates to our class)
TO BE CONTINUED….Tune in next week to find out what happens
