Ladies of Grace Blog Update

On Sunday, I was at Walmart trying to find the Post-it notes for my ds's school supply list. (I don't know why Walmart doesn't put the Post-it notes with the other school supplies, but they don't in that particular store and I was sort of hurrying around trying to find the "stationery" department where these Post-its where kept (turns out way back in the store.) It was frustrating because I just could not find this department in a timely manner .... I had to ask two times where it was.

During this search, I rolled my cart down one isle kind of at a moderate speed. An older lady had a 5-6 year old child in her cart and it was positioned right in the middle of the isle while she was slowly concentrating on some type of item on the shelve she was looking at.

I felt annoyed that she just had her child in the middle of the isle because I just wanted to roll on by. But I cheerily said, "excuse me." She seemed to ignore me, did not look up or anything. I didn't feel I could move her cart since the child was in it.

A few seconds later I said again, cheerily (thinking she had not heard me), "excuse me."

She looked at me very nasty and said, "Just give me a minute already!!!" (Really nasty tone, acting as if I am being rude, etc.)

This really annoyed me. I said to her kindly and cheerily, "I just thought you didn't hear me."

Then I waited and then she moved slowly.

I told myself she was not the b***ch she seemed to be acting like ... that she probably had a lot on her mind, was at her wits' end or was having a hard or bad day. I fought off the urge to dwell on this woman's nastiness. It was a choice to just not go negative about that one. It was hard due to my own mood and the degree of nastiness of this woman.

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