My son was in Harp’s the other day, a small town grocery store that tries to resemble a Whole Foods Market, here as of late. He was sent to get a few items, maybe four? And the one line in the only check-out aisle was long.
There were many shoppers in front of him, including one little old lady in the electronic shopping cart. She was noticeably agitated at the situation at hand, and getting a little more jittery as she watched the could-be checkers standing in close proximity to the line.
Some were doing productive things with good joyful attitudes while others were probably on their way to doing productive things, all of which were not to start another check-out line the customers observed. And judging from the smiles on their faces, they all had good joyful attitudes on this day. The woman noticed this, and decided to give up her place to correct it.
She rode over to a couple of employees and asked them if they could start another line. “Yes ma’am, we’ll get that done in just a moment.” The women left, one in one direction, and the other went someplace else. Both employees weren’t trying to be rude, nor were they in bad spirits; they just didn’t get the extra checkout line started, (my son noticed).
The woman in the grocery scooter didn’t give up there. She rode on and stopped another employee that was coming her way.
“We need another checkout line. There seems to be available people around, so would you start one, please? Or contact one of these other people? No one seems to be too terribly busy right at the moment.” The person actually smiled and agreed that he would do this, but he did not. He kept moving forward, obviously on his way to do something else and what, no one followed him to find out.
The woman, now frustrated at her two failed attempts at getting something productive accomplished, summoned a third person. This time, she wasn’t nice.
“Get me the manager, NOW!” the little old lady demanded. My son said that he, among the other people in line, all had to crack a smile because they all witnessed the perseverance in this little old woman who wanted nothing more than to see grocery store justice take place, and because she was willing to speak up, she got it, finally!
The manager was contacted, and speedy-quick, she hurried right over and listened to her complaint.
“I’ve spoken to two other of your employees, and I have not seen any results, but there’s a long line here, and we need another checker to open up another register so we can get home by Christmas, don’t you think?” Of course, the month was March.
“I’ll get right on it immediately. I’m sorry about the wait.” And she did! She didn’t have to speak to anyone, she just snapped her fingers, and someone was quickly opening up another check out line. The lady turned her little scooter around, and rode right over.
My son said that he wanted to do that so bad, what that little old lady did, but he knew it wouldn’t be well-received because of his age and demeanor. However, this woman, who lived a lot of years was not afraid to stand up for what was right, and in the end, she kept on till she saw the correct end results. She didn’t care what other people thought, as do young people of today, and she wasn’t giving up, and because she had that spirit, and no one else did, she greatly helped out a lot of people.
“There are just certain things that a an older person can get a way with that nobody else can,” concluded my son, as he told us the story of the little old lady who could.
(Funny, but nobody got a phone out to record that.)
Older people can still get things done because they will speak up and fight for what’s right. In the end, there are certain young people that applaud them, and are just glad to have them around, because we all know that if it weren’t for the old people, nothing would ever get done.
“They are still the best things ever,” my son commented (and yes, he really did say that, and this is absolutely a true story.) 🙂
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