Who Kicked the Cat? – Knowledge of the Wounded

She was sullen, crabby, and gave the impression to be carrying a 50-pound bag of one thing on her again. I encountered this Walgreen’s clerk, a younger girl of maybe 19, as she rung up my sale. Her perspective made me boil inside and I actually wished to say one thing sarcastic about “buyer contact” or lack of it. I used to be nonetheless fuming after I reached my automotive.

Now weeks later, when considering of that younger lady, I remembered a narrative by the late motivational speaker Zig Ziggler known as, “Who Kicked the Cat?” (Zig Ziglar was fairly the storyteller. You could hearken to him inform this story right here.)

The Story of Who Kicked the Cat?

Mr. B. was out for lunch and misplaced monitor of the time. His firm had a coverage about being on time, So, he ran out of the restaurant and squealed his tires out of the car parking zone and sped towards the workplace. Then a police automotive stopped him.  Mr. B was boiling mad when the police man gave him a ticket—he thought: Why aren’t the police on the market defending individuals from criminals and dangerous individuals? In spite of everything I’m a law-abiding good citizen.

He was nonetheless growling when he acquired to his workplace, he known as his secretary and demanded to know why she had not despatched the 4 letters he had requested. When she tried to clarify, he interrupted her and mentioned that if she couldn’t do her job, he would discover somebody who may. The secretary was actually upset and muttered to herself how unfair her boss was as she did a lot of the work round right here. Nicely, for those who suppose she was upset, it is best to have seen how upset the receptionist was when the secretary threw the four-letter project on her desk and mentioned, “Get these letters out instantly. You don’t do a lot round right here besides often reply a number of cellphone calls.”

Nicely now the receptionist was actually upset and was nonetheless fuming when she reached dwelling and noticed her younger son watching television and noticed a rip in his good pants. She exploded: “What number of instances have I instructed you to vary your garments after faculty?! I’ve all I can deal with offering for this household. Go to your room and keep there till morning. You might be grounded for 3 weeks.” Now the younger boy was actually upset and as he walked to his room, his cat crossed his path and the boy kicked the cat and mentioned, “you most likely haven’t been as much as any good in the present day!”

Reflections on this Story

When telling this story, Zig Ziglar would take a dramatic pause on the finish after which ask his viewers, “Now wouldn’t it have been higher if Mr. B had gone on to the receptionist’s dwelling and kicked her cat?”

Zig reminds us that when somebody upsets us or will get underneath our pores and skin, we must always keep in mind that somebody has most likely been “kicking his cat.”

Now I’m wondering who had been kicking the cat of that younger sullen Walgreens clerk?

Zig challenges me: Can I perceive it wasn’t about me? Somebody has been kicking her cat.

An afterthought: I may have mentioned to that clerk, “It appears that you’re having a foul day. I’m actually sorry about that, and I hope your day improves.”