Thursday, May 3, 2012

"Everybody's changing and I don't feel the same."


Things feel dull, and yet they're so alive. Today was great and yet it wasn't. But it really was. I am so happy. I have wonderful people around me and I get to laugh more than not throughout a day.
Today a customer asked for two items and I mistakenly told him the price of one even though I knew he wanted two and he joking says that he'll take the two of one and we laugh and when he's paying he had given me a few extra dollars and I hand them back and he says oops and I joke "but if you want to pay more, I'm okaaay with that." like how he did to me and he goes to hand me the money and says it's a tip after we laugh. (don't you love run on sentences??) Well I tell him how we aren't allowed to accept tips and he seemed unsatisfied. Thennn he says "Oh well I'm just going to happen to drop my money on the ground." and he seriously throws it over his shoulder and I'm red in the face and giggling and he leaves and I pick it up (the whole 2 bucks) and put it in my back pocket. Shortly after that, I'm off of work and my mother gives me $10 to go buy laundry detergent from Walmart. If you didn't know me, you wouldn't know that I prefer certain things that my mother doesn't buy. So I go in with $12. And I'm going to buy the detergent I need and if I have money to spare I'm going to buy more dryer sheets which my mother also doesn't buy. And then if I have even more, I'll pick up some spray and wash which, you guessed it, she doesn't care for. So-ap (read much previous posts remakes on my use of 'so-ap') I'm carrying the 3 items in my hand and I go to scan them for price checks and in front of me is this sweet older Latina woman taking her time scanning some items. Whatever right? I'm never going to see her again and I'm not going to due holding a huge container of detergent. I scan the items and figure I have enough. I go wait in line. I get the total and it's $12.48 which means that I obviously miscalculated. I freak out. And right beside me is the lady who was checking her prices earlier and she's about to look through her bag. I ask in Spanish for some change and she seems more than happy to help out she even gives me a $1 bill. I pay. Give her the change and keep thanking her. She tells me not to worry about it. I walk out feeling so blessed and I start thinking about it. If I would have let her go in front of me when we were in that awkward moment of who got there first in line, (which I usually even if I'm there first, let the other person go ahead because I don't mind waiting for things,) she wouldn't have been there to help me out. And if that man didn't insist on tipping me, I wouldn't have such great smelling laundry just how I like. And just life is so great. And we are so blessed and miracles happen every single day. And I hope my ramble made sense because I'm not going to re read it. Today has just been good. Even with upsetting thoughts. I have to remember that life is good. We all must remember.


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