MissJulesBeauty
Well-Known Member
One of my customers is coming to our house for Christmas Lunch....
I have only known this customer for about 4 months. She is by far one of the nicest ladies you could wish to meet.
She is in her late 60's I believe and has family but mentioned that she may be alone this Christmas after having no invites from her daughters / sons and them not responding to her when she told them she was going to be alone. I felt awful and ashamed on behalf of her offspring. How can anyone allow their family members to be alone at such a special family time.
So I said I would not let her spend Christmas alone and that if she could not find anywhere to go she should call me and come to us. We don't have kids but have my parents and siblings coming to us on Christmas day. She smiled and said that was sweet but I insisted that if she came to me in the New year and told me she'd spent Christmas alone I would be really annoyed! She hugged me and said she would see what she could arrange. This was over a month ago as she was about to fly off for a four week holiday in Tunisia.
Yesterday I got a phone call from her saying she was back etc. I asked what she had planned for Christmas and she said she would like to come to us. I am so pleased she has accepted as I would have been mortified to later find out she was alone. She truly is a lovely lady and lets face it no one deserves to spend Christmas alone!
My partner is more than happy with whats happening, he knows how soft I am and if he is honest he is just as bad lol...
Got me thinking from a business point of view though, that it is not the most professional thing to do is it lol... Still in the name of Christmas spirit I am sure it will be a fabulous day
I have only known this customer for about 4 months. She is by far one of the nicest ladies you could wish to meet.
She is in her late 60's I believe and has family but mentioned that she may be alone this Christmas after having no invites from her daughters / sons and them not responding to her when she told them she was going to be alone. I felt awful and ashamed on behalf of her offspring. How can anyone allow their family members to be alone at such a special family time.
So I said I would not let her spend Christmas alone and that if she could not find anywhere to go she should call me and come to us. We don't have kids but have my parents and siblings coming to us on Christmas day. She smiled and said that was sweet but I insisted that if she came to me in the New year and told me she'd spent Christmas alone I would be really annoyed! She hugged me and said she would see what she could arrange. This was over a month ago as she was about to fly off for a four week holiday in Tunisia.
Yesterday I got a phone call from her saying she was back etc. I asked what she had planned for Christmas and she said she would like to come to us. I am so pleased she has accepted as I would have been mortified to later find out she was alone. She truly is a lovely lady and lets face it no one deserves to spend Christmas alone!
My partner is more than happy with whats happening, he knows how soft I am and if he is honest he is just as bad lol...
Got me thinking from a business point of view though, that it is not the most professional thing to do is it lol... Still in the name of Christmas spirit I am sure it will be a fabulous day