Author: Christine Elias

I am the type of person who likes to dress appropriately for occasions. I don’t wear velour gym suits to work and I don’t run to the store in my around-the-house pants and tops.

And when I go to the theatre, I look nice. Nicer than I would running over to Shoppers Drug Mart for example. Nicer than I might going to a movie.

As far as I know theatres don’t have dress codes. I’ve seen plays in New York, Toronto and Minneapolis wearing a variety of outfits including jeans. Not shocking, right?

But jeans , running shoes and sweat suits are forbidden at Stage West in Mississauga. The rules are also printed on their tickets.

Why do I know this? I went to a brunch performance of Breaking Up is Hard to Do today and I spent some time trying to figure out what to wear so early on a Sunday morning.

The show was enjoyable (surprisingly very much so) but I spent some time wondering where this unremarkable venue with dated decor — not to mention the fact that it’s situated by the airport in a unattractive part of Mississauga — cared so much about what the audience (most of whom were too old to even own jeans) wore.

Bizarre.

I have never in my life dealt with such an inept person. I had to leave work early to go to my (soon to be former) financial institution to figure why someone lost documents and forgot to order the appraisal on a condo that closes on Monday.

This someone got to see serious-angry-doing-hard-
business-Christine.

A very very annoyed Christine.

I was even more annoyed when the appraiser called this evening and didn’t know the address of the condo and many other pertinent details the bank (actually Mr. Inept) should have told him.

Most importantly he didn’t understand the gravity of the situation….this is urgent. The appraisal can’t be done on Monday. The documents were due today. Today!

I will be making an appointment with the bank manager. If I did my job this badly I would hang my head in shame.

I’m not going to write the name of the bank or Mr. Inept’s name on my blog yet. But if this is not settled tomorrow I am going to unleash the SERIOUS PR.