Okay, I’ll tell it 😉
Many of you may have noticed how the price of groceries has risen sharply the past month. Here in Vancouver Canada at least, there has been a spike of what seems to be 20-30% on some items. They say it is a temporary spike due to the recent floods and COVID supply chain issues -we shall see- but it is a noticeable spike nonetheless.
Last week my wife and I were driving past one of those no frills discount grocery stores. It wasn’t in our neighbourhood so we hadn’t been there in years, but since it was raining extremely hard and they had covered parking, we decided to stop in. The prices were noticeably lower than my regular grocery store. Literally I was excited about how some of the same products were 1/4 less than what I’d pay at my regular store. I felt like a kid in a candy store. What a relief, quality groceries costing what I think is a reasonable price
When we got to the checkout there was a woman with a toddler in line in front of us. She caught my attention because she dropped a box of strawberries and calmly picked each berry up & put them back in the box and into her cart. That was nice I thought. No demanding a new box, no complainIng. When the clerk rang through her order and gave her the total she realized that she couldn’t find her credit card. Clearly she was devastated, a rainy night, an entire cart of groceries and a toddler in tow. She looked so incredibly sad. I looked at her, the toddler, the diapers and groceries in the cart and just spontaneously said “Don’t worry about it, I’ll pay for them”. The clerk asked me three times to repeat it because she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, and I think that this woman’s day was very much brightened.
This isn’t a self-congratulatory story. I was so happy to have groceries that didn’t feel expensive, so happy to have groceries PERIOD, since my neighbours 40 minutes away were living in shelters due to the flooding. So to me, this is a story about how when we feel gratitude for what we have, we can appreciate the small things in life, we can be happier, and we can be of service to our community. To be honest, being able to help this woman really put me in the Christmas spirit! $145 for a strangers groceries is about what a therapy session or a one hour massage costs 😉 and I feel like it was with every penny.
And on that note, thank you all for THIS community. I appreciate the knowledge, friendships and a home for this hobby.
A Christmas Carol for our times.
Ebenezor would have approved.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/royal-mail-falkirk-postman-woman-snow-patricia-stewart-b919577.ht
Anyone with something good to share?
This story, while reprehensible, is ten months old.
That clown is the lowest form of life.
This is an old story, but when it first came out in the UK, a manager from the royal mail wrote in the comments section of a newspaper, that if the postman had helped the woman and she had fallen while being helped, she could have sued the royal mail and the postman would have been suspended and probably fired.
Yes the right thing to do would be to help, it atleast get help for the woman but the postmaster comments, if true, also highlight the fact that we live in a world where trying to do the right thing, might end in disaster for the person trying to help.
Okay, I’ll tell it 😉
Many of you may have noticed how the price of groceries has risen sharply the past month. Here in Vancouver Canada at least, there has been a spike of what seems to be 20-30% on some items. They say it is a temporary spike due to the recent floods and COVID supply chain issues -we shall see- but it is a noticeable spike nonetheless.
Last week my wife and I were driving past one of those no frills discount grocery stores. It wasn’t in our neighbourhood so we hadn’t been there in years, but since it was raining extremely hard and they had covered parking, we decided to stop in. The prices were noticeably lower than my regular grocery store. Literally I was excited about how some of the same products were 1/4 less than what I’d pay at my regular store. I felt like a kid in a candy store. What a relief, quality groceries costing what I think is a reasonable price
When we got to the checkout there was a woman with a toddler in line in front of us. She caught my attention because she dropped a box of strawberries and calmly picked each berry up & put them back in the box and into her cart. That was nice I thought. No demanding a new box, no complainIng. When the clerk rang through her order and gave her the total she realized that she couldn’t find her credit card. Clearly she was devastated, a rainy night, an entire cart of groceries and a toddler in tow. She looked so incredibly sad. I looked at her, the toddler, the diapers and groceries in the cart and just spontaneously said “Don’t worry about it, I’ll pay for them”. The clerk asked me three times to repeat it because she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, and I think that this woman’s day was very much brightened.
This isn’t a self-congratulatory story. I was so happy to have groceries that didn’t feel expensive, so happy to have groceries PERIOD, since my neighbours 40 minutes away were living in shelters due to the flooding. So to me, this is a story about how when we feel gratitude for what we have, we can appreciate the small things in life, we can be happier, and we can be of service to our community. To be honest, being able to help this woman really put me in the Christmas spirit! $145 for a strangers groceries is about what a therapy session or a one hour massage costs 😉 and I feel like it was with every penny.
And on that note, thank you all for THIS community. I appreciate the knowledge, friendships and a home for this hobby.
Okay, I’ll tell it 😉
Many of you may have noticed how the price of groceries has risen sharply the past month. Here in Vancouver Canada at least, there has been a spike of what seems to be 20-30% on some items. They say it is a temporary spike due to the recent floods and COVID supply chain issues -we shall see- but it is a noticeable spike nonetheless.
Last week my wife and I were driving past one of those no frills discount grocery stores. It wasn’t in our neighbourhood so we hadn’t been there in years, but since it was raining extremely hard and they had covered parking, we decided to stop in. The prices were noticeably lower than my regular grocery store. Literally I was excited about how some of the same products were 1/4 less than what I’d pay at my regular store. I felt like a kid in a candy store. What a relief, quality groceries costing what I think is a reasonable price
When we got to the checkout there was a woman with a toddler in line in front of us. She caught my attention because she dropped a box of strawberries and calmly picked each berry up & put them back in the box and into her cart. That was nice I thought. No demanding a new box, no complainIng. When the clerk rang through her order and gave her the total she realized that she couldn’t find her credit card. Clearly she was devastated, a rainy night, an entire cart of groceries and a toddler in tow. She looked so incredibly sad. I looked at her, the toddler, the diapers and groceries in the cart and just spontaneously said “Don’t worry about it, I’ll pay for them”. The clerk asked me three times to repeat it because she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, and I think that this woman’s day was very much brightened.
This isn’t a self-congratulatory story. I was so happy to have groceries that didn’t feel expensive, so happy to have groceries PERIOD, since my neighbours 40 minutes away were living in shelters due to the flooding. So to me, this is a story about how when we feel gratitude for what we have, we can appreciate the small things in life, we can be happier, and we can be of service to our community. To be honest, being able to help this woman really put me in the Christmas spirit! $145 for a strangers groceries is about what a therapy session or a one hour massage costs 😉 and I feel like it was with every penny.
And on that note, thank you all for THIS community. I appreciate the knowledge, friendships and a home for
Okay, I’ll tell it 😉
Many of you may have noticed how the price of groceries has risen sharply the past month. Here in Vancouver Canada at least, there has been a spike of what seems to be 20-30% on some items. They say it is a temporary spike due to the recent floods and COVID supply chain issues -we shall see- but it is a noticeable spike nonetheless.
Last week my wife and I were driving past one of those no frills discount grocery stores. It wasn’t in our neighbourhood so we hadn’t been there in years, but since it was raining extremely hard and they had covered parking, we decided to stop in. The prices were noticeably lower than my regular grocery store. Literally I was excited about how some of the same products were 1/4 less than what I’d pay at my regular store. I felt like a kid in a candy store. What a relief, quality groceries costing what I think is a reasonable price
When we got to the checkout there was a woman with a toddler in line in front of us. She caught my attention because she dropped a box of strawberries and calmly picked each berry up & put them back in the box and into her cart. That was nice I thought. No demanding a new box, no complainIng. When the clerk rang through her order and gave her the total she realized that she couldn’t find her credit card. Clearly she was devastated, a rainy night, an entire cart of groceries and a toddler in tow. She looked so incredibly sad. I looked at her, the toddler, the diapers and groceries in the cart and just spontaneously said “Don’t worry about it, I’ll pay for them”. The clerk asked me three times to repeat it because she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, and I think that this woman’s day was very much brightened.
This isn’t a self-congratulatory story. I was so happy to have groceries that didn’t feel expensive, so happy to have groceries PERIOD, since my neighbours 40 minutes away were living in shelters due to the flooding. So to me, this is a story about how when we feel gratitude for what we have, we can appreciate the small things in life, we can be happier, and we can be of service to our community. To be honest, being able to help this woman really put me in the Christmas spirit! $145 for a strangers groceries is about what a therapy session or a one hour massage costs 😉 and I feel like it was with every penny.
And on that note, thank you all for THIS community. I appreciate the knowledge, friendships and a home for this hobby.
...Then, the checkout girl starts fumbling with the paper in the cash register, causing a significant delay. This engenders the couple to start engaging me in awkward conversation because the felt they had to, given I was being so nice. So instead of having a YouTube moment, we were standing there forever, going back and forth in the most stilted and clumsy way. It was hilarious. All of us couldn’t wait ‘til it was over.
