your welcome ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sugar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:33 AM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: Never Judge
> > This is a good one sis. thanks > Syl > > Sugar Says: > People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the > sun > is out, > But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there > is a light shining from within. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "delma bliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]>; "OurKitchenTable2" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "JanetsKitchen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 6:28 AM > Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Never Judge > > >> >> >> Never Judge >> >> "Some people!" snorted a man standing behind me in the long line at the >> grocery store. >> "You would think the manager would pay attention and open another line," >> said a woman. >> I looked to the front of the line to see what the hold-up was and saw a >> well >> dressed, young woman, trying to get the machine to accept her credit >> card. >> No matter how many times she swiped it, the machine kept rejecting it. >> "It's one of them welfare card things. Darn people need to get a job like >> everyone else," said the man, standing behind me. >> The young woman turned around to see who had made the comment. >> "It was me," he said, pointing to himself. >> The young lady's face began to change expression. Almost in tears, she >> dropped the welfare card onto the counter and quickly walked out of the >> store. Everyone in the checkout line watched, as she began running to Her >> car. Never looking back, she got in and drove away. >> After developing cancer in 1977 and having had to use Food stamps, I >> learned >> never to judge anyone, without knowing the circumstances of their life. >> This >> turned out to be the case today. >> Several minutes later, a young man walked into the store. He went up to >> the >> cashier and asked if she had seen the woman. After he described her, the >> cashier told him that she had run out of the store, gotten into her car, >> and >> drove away. >> "Why would she do that?" asked the man. >> Everyone in the line looked around at the fellow who had made the >> statement >> that upset the young woman so. >> "I made a stupid comment about the welfare card she was using. Something >> I >> shouldn't have said. I'm sorry," said the man. >> "Well, that's bad, real bad, in fact. Her brother was killed in >> Afghanistan >> two years ago. He had three young children, and she has taken on that >> responsibility. She's twenty years old, single, and now has three >> children >> to support," he said in a very firm voice. >> "I'm really truly sorry. I didn't know," he replied, shaking his head and >> both his hands about. >> The young man asked, "Are these paid for?" pointing to the shopping cart >> full of groceries. >> "The machine wouldn't take her card," the clerk told him. >> "Do you know where she lives?" asked the man who had made the comment. >> "Yes, she goes to our church," answered the young man. >> "Excuse me," said the older man, as he made his way to the front of the >> line. He pulled out his wallet, took out his credit card and told the >> cashier, "Please use my card. PLEASE!" >> The clerk took his credit card and began to ring up the young woman's >> groceries. >> "Hold on," said the gentleman. He walked back to his shopping cart and >> began >> loading his own groceries onto the belt to be included. "Come on people, >> we've got three kids to help raise!" he said to everyone in line. >> Everyone began to place their groceries onto the fast-moving belt. A few >> customers began bagging the food and placing it into separate carts. >> "Go back and get two big turkeys," yelled a woman, as she looked at the >> man. >> "NO" yelled the man. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. The entire >> store >> became quiet for several seconds. "Four turkeys!" yelled the man. >> Everyone >> began laughing and went back to work. >> When all was said and done, the man paid a total of $1,646.57 for the >> groceries. He then walked over to the side, pulled out his check book, >> and >> began writing a check using the bags of dog food piled near the front of >> the >> store for a writing surface. He turned around and handed the check to the >> young man. >> "She will need a freezer and a few other things as well," he told the >> man. >> The young man looked at the check and said, "This is really very generous >> of >> you." >> "No," said the man. "Her brother was the generous one." >> Everyone in the store had been observing the odd commotion and began to >> clap. And I drove home that day feeling very American. We live in the >> Land >> of the free, because of the Brave! Remember our Troops of Yesterday and >> Today! >> This was a great example of why we should be kind and patient. >> Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. >> Author Unknown >> >> >> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1682 - Release Date: 9/20/2008 10:24 AM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
