Not that I was grumpy at work today or anything… Nah, not me…
Sigh…
And due to the ‘people’ I was dealing with today, this could have been my mantra ALL day!
A woman shopping in a supermarket repeatedly came across a grandfather and his totally obnoxious 3 or 4 year-old grandson. The kid was yelling for sweets in the candy aisle, then he wanted ice cream in the freezer section. Cookies in the cookie aisle. All during these episodes she’d hear the Grandfather saying very calmly, “Take it easy William…….Cool it William it won’t be much longer…..William we’re almost finished try to calm down.”
After one particularly loud outburst, and she heard the Granddad calmly say, “It’s okay, William, just a couple more minutes and we’ll be out of here. Hang in there boy.” At the checkout the little terror was throwing items out of the cart, and Granddad said again
in a very low key voice, “William, William, relax buddy, don’t get upset. We’ll be home in five minutes William.”
The woman, very impressed with the Grandfather’s demeanor, was on her way to her car when she realized the the man was parked right next to her. She felt compelled to compliment the man. She said to the elderly gentleman, “It’s none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don’t know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive the boy got you just calmly kept saying things would be okay.
William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa.” “Thanks,” said the grandfather, “but I’m William …….this little prick’s name is Kevin.”
And this one is my favorite “Empty Chair”… LOL
Leave it up to a bunch of grunts to get it right…
And I’m working on a post from the flight back to IAD last night; but I’ve gotta take all the four letter words out of it first…
