Ending Stress

No matter how bad a day one is going through there is always humor to be found in order to lighten the day. The problem is that once someone is having a really bad day, they have already developed tunnel vision and like the old saying goes; ‘You can’t see the tree because of the forest’.

I was working at one store dealing with four pallets of product, a short time to completely work the pallets to the shelves, condense everything to keep the store manager happy before I had to leave and work a great deal of many more stores in the same situation before heading home to cut the grass while taking care of two kids due to their mother being sick with a summer cold. Oh and do the grocery shopping before coming home. A typical day for the working person.

About half way working this store I was in the back room loading up another cart to take to the floor when I and a few others noticed the store manager acting like he was not happy with his phone conversation. It got to the point that he put the phone on speaker so everyone could here this woman complain in great detail. That is if you count repeating the same thing in every other sentence going into detail. At this moment it became break time.

Apparently, this ‘lady’ was shopping and when it became time to pay for her items; she laid all her coupons on the little counter where you write out checks. After the casher rang up all the items she took the coupons and starting scanning them. To the horror of ‘this lady’ who had not yet sorted out her coupons to decide which ones she was or wasn’t going to use. It took a good ten minutes for the lady on the phone to explain her side of the story due to the fact that every other sentence was; “And then she took my coupons!”

My very long day became a little more enjoyable. Even the Stores receiver was going around in the back room saying ‘Don’t take my coupons.’ A great deal of stress that was building up all of a sudden had gone away. For the rest of the day I kept remembering the sound of a woman screaming on a phone about a cashier taking coupons that were on a counter. Her voice is very similar to Steve Urkel on the TV show Family Matters. But with a lot more of a high pitch whining tone. She might have been having a bad day but I walking on sunshine after listening to her.