Your kidding me
Nope I’m out
“On line at the check out in the super market, I watch as an old woman digs in her purse for every last coin in there to pay for the few items she has bought. A well dressed, clearly affluent man standing behind her watches. Very gently he says “Don’t worry— I’ll take care of the rest,” and reaches into his pocket to pay for her things. “Thank you, but no” the old woman says to him and is not smiling. Instead she tells the cashier to put aside a container of sour cream she had planned to buy but now wouldn’t. Putting her three purchases into a bag and without looking at the man again, she left. The man was embarrassed. The cashier told him not to mind— this was the second time that had happened with the woman. The guy shrugged and walked out of the store. I’ve been thinking about the scene since it happened. The small kindness of the man’s gesture, the old woman with her pride, the cashier who remembered that it had happened before.
— JONATHAN CARROLL
Nope I’m out
“On line at the check out in the super market, I watch as an old woman digs in her purse for every last coin in there to pay for the few items she has bought. A well dressed, clearly affluent man standing behind her watches. Very gently he says “Don’t worry— I’ll take care of the rest,” and reaches into his pocket to pay for her things. “Thank you, but no” the old woman says to him and is not smiling. Instead she tells the cashier to put aside a container of sour cream she had planned to buy but now wouldn’t. Putting her three purchases into a bag and without looking at the man again, she left. The man was embarrassed. The cashier told him not to mind— this was the second time that had happened with the woman. The guy shrugged and walked out of the store. I’ve been thinking about the scene since it happened. The small kindness of the man’s gesture, the old woman with her pride, the cashier who remembered that it had happened before.
— JONATHAN CARROLL