About once a month I try to help out by going to the grocery store alone to help save some time and sanity for my wife. She's a Girl Scout leader and has a meeting tonight and since it's going to be cold tomorrow I wanted to get the shopping done today while it's still warm which allows me to move better with less pain. So, I volunteered to complete the task this morning.
My wife makes the list and sends me off (with confidence?) on my own and within two items down on the list I'm not sure what I'm suppose to get or how much of a particular item we need. Inevitably, I start texting my journey from within the land of commerce with questions, observations I make of other humans and I send photographs to help facilitate my Odyssey and to hopefully entertain. Our kid wanted to try a new cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros Cereal to be exact. It was on sale so I made the executive decision to purchase it. I threw it in the cart face down and saw the above image on the back of the box. Who created that art and who said that 'looks great?' There is just so much in that illustration to digest. That happy guy is going to be facing me for at least the next week at the kitchen table, because there is no way I want my kid seeing the back of this box during breakfast.
Upon checkout, a familiar clerk was working who is almost too friendly and too social. She knows our kid's name and even brought up purchasing Girl Scout cookies from my kid since it is that time of year. This clerk even knows I spent 2 weeks in the ICU and that I'm not exactly able bodied any longer. Anyhow, there was an elderly woman in front of me in line and when the clerk finished up checking out her order she asked her if she needed assistance out to her vehicle. Then I went through the line and the clerk asked me how my kid is doing and wife and then told me to "have a good day." I don't need help and I wouldn't have taken it had she offered. Really, it doesn't bother me, because honestly I look fine now and it probably doesn't register with her. It was just another observation... BUT, did you see those Super Bowl advertisements knocking all the robots or dismissing them as if they are inferior? This created some distress for me and it did bother me. Let's treat my half kind with a little more compassion humans. Please, for your sake.
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