So James & I walked over to Giant yesterday evening to pick up some broccoli for dinner. The lady in front of me in the checkout line was taking forever & I could tell that James was getting impatient in his stroller. Just as it was my turn in line, James starts screaming. I'm literally only buying broccoli, so I don't bother to get him out of his stroller & try to console him. Besides, I know that as soon as we start walking again, he'll be fine. Thirty seconds after he starts yelling, some lady walks over to me from another line and snaps, "Ma'am, I think you need to pick up your child." I assume that she's just trying to be helpful, so I start responding with "Oh, he's all right, he just...." but she cuts me off with "Well, it is NOT all right for the rest of us that have to listen to that!" and storms off. I'm already embarrassed that my child is screaming bloody murder, but now some lady has yelled at me in front of my entire checkout line. To make matters worse, the incompetent teller doesn't know the code for the broccoli and takes another two minutes to look it up while I'm trying my best not to cry.
The only bright spot was the lady in line behind me. When devil-lady yelled at me, she snorted and said loudly "well, THAT was rude!". I wanted to thank her, but I was afraid I'd start bawling so I just looked at her gratefully and hurried off.
Of course, as soon as we get outside the store, James immediately stops crying and starts cooing at the flowers. I think God must be giving me a chance to work off all the time I've accrued in Purgatory.
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The woman who said those things must be a very bitter, sad, old woman. I'll relate a story I heard from Fr. Gordon: his brother's wife (who had 4 children at the time) asked him why women would give her dirty looks when she went shopping with her kids. He told her that those women were bitter and envious of her because they had bought the feminist lie and contracepted, and were now too old to have children.
ReplyDeleteThe next time Mrs. Gordon went shopping with her kids, some woman accosted her and said "You know, you can stop now!" (i.e. you can stop having children - 4 is enough!) Mrs. Gordon responded, "Oh, how sad. You want to have children, but now it's too late for you." The woman started bawling.
Say a prayer for the woman who said those things to you - she obviously needs it!