Me: “Hello”
Voice: “Hello, may I speak with Angela please.”
Me: “Yes, this is she speaking.” (Yes I do answer the phone this way when I have no idea who it is :-P)
Voice: “Angela this is Terry your Weight Watcher leader calling and I just want to start off my saying that the purpose of this phone call isn’t to make anyone feel bad at all, but I just want you to know that you are very missed at our Weight Watchers meeting and I just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t anything I did to stop you from coming to our meeting. I normally don’t call our members when they stop coming to our meetings, but you and Lynn and Holly are really missed in our group and since I only knew your first name, me and the staff here went through our member cards trying to find your last name and phone number so I could call you personally and as you can imagine, we have hundreds of members, so it was tough, but I found it!”
Me: “Awwww Terry! First of all, please know that I would go out of my way to attend one of your meetings. Secondly, the reason I haven’t been attending is really a good and happy reason and that is because we’re expecting a baby! In fact a friend of mine attends another one of your meetings on Tuesdays and she offered to tell you for me this coming week.”
Terry: “Oh I am so happy to hear that because it matters to me how you are doing and I would just hate if there was anything that I did to stop you from coming.”
Me: “Absolutely not and in fact, you can be sure you’ll be seeing me again after the baby comes!”
(….back and forth chit chat ensues…)
Terry: “I am so happy to hear it! Please pass the same along to Lynn and Holly”
I can’t tell you how much it touched me that she went through so much trouble to contact me! This was not a routine phone call and I could tell that she genuinely meant it. Clearly she doesn’t read the blog! lol The funny thing is that I did want to contact her to tell her that I would no longer be attending, but at the time I could only find a 1-800 number for WW and I was feeling supreme 1st trimester misery and I just didn’t have it in me to pursue it further at the time.
She definitely made my day!! Thank you Terry! 😉
