Kindness 

Tonight Ryan is gone to football camp and the weekend was so busy I didn’t make it to the grocery. So what was for dinner was the question? With no input from my hubby I had to decide. So I decided easy since it was already six. 

Reagan and I ran into Safeway because all I had was a checkbook. My card and ID was still in my purse from the bachelorette party. So we grabbed our chicken dinner and stood in the rush hour grocery line. When we were finally checking out, I was writing my check to try not to hold the line up. I handed my check to the cashier hoping I had written a check there recently so they wouldn’t ask for my ID. (Remember it’s in my other purse.)  Well, I never write checks and the dreaded request for ID happens. I explain all I have is my check book. The cashier hollers across to the next checker, she doesn’t have her ID what can I do?

The moment you dread at the grocery. The entire rush hour line starring at you. Your toddler in your arms as you try to quietly explain why you don’t have your ID. Then the cashier at the other register tells you, sorry we can’t do anything for you. So you say, okay, I just won’t take my groceries, as you apologize to the people behind you for the hold up. 

Then all of the sudden the lady a person behind me says, “can I add her groceries to my bill?” I try and say, no, no you don’t need to do that. But she insists she knows what it’s like to be at the store late with a baby in tow and you just need a little help. I tell her thank you and ask her if I can write her the check for my groceries. Which she accepts, and I am beyond thankful! 

This woman’s kindness brings me to tears (and it did as soon as I got to my car) because sometimes being a mom, a wife, an employee, a friend… really just being human is hard. I try so hard to keep it all together. To do what is best and right all the time. And then I show up at the grocery after work with just my checkbook. And it doesn’t go well. All I could do was excuse myself from the embarrassment of the situation. Until a lady who understands how hard and busy life is offers to help me.

So to the lady at Safeway, Veronica was her name, Thank You for your kindness tonight! It meant so much and I will look for a way to pay it forward to another person!