Uptight Seattleite

Leave the poor girls alone ...

With apologies to The Seattle Weekly

I ran into the Uptight Seattleite (TM) at Qwest Field.

I was recently at the Seahawks Open Scrimmage going around checking out the various booths and whatnot. Oh, a Jones Soda booth with free samples ... nice. Even better, two cute girls pouring the soda. Why yes, I would love to try that one, thank you ...

"People are tossing their cups in with the recycling!" The voice said.

The girls looked around, somewhat confused and probably wondering why anyone would tell them this.

See ... it turns out that there were a couple of recycling bins for cans and bottles to either side of the booth. On the outside of the booth. The instructions on the bins stated for cans only or something and also included a note not to include plastic cups. But, these bins and their instructions were clearly outside the purview of the soda pouring job these two had taken on. They were there to pour soda and look cute doing it so that people would want to drink Jones Soda at four bucks a bottle up the stairs.

"They'll go through it," one of the two managed to say back to her.

"No. They won't." The woman snapped back at them. She clearly wanted them to do something about it.

The two looked back at her, trying to keep their smiles on, but clearly just wanting this woman to go away and leave them alone so that they could do their jobs.

The woman did not want to let it go. She made another comment and acted clearly disgusted with these two. They were not doing enough to police the recycling bins outside their booth with instructions that were not facing them. Something finally pulled her away. I think it was someone that was embarrassed by her clearly self-righteous and unnecessary chastisement of soda girls ...

Part of me wanted to say something, but the girls were holding their composure fairly well so I didn't ...

And then I tossed away my plastic cup. I won't say where.