My stomach is untying knots of annoyance right now. Bleah! Something was aligned in space that I found myself going from one annoyance to another today. Yesterday, that is. No, I'm not going to describe them. Not worth it.
But, I will describe an attitude we encountered the other day that continues to disturb the husband and me. I was ordering a sandwich at a supermarket deli. A frail elderly man was next to me holding onto his empty cart. He took a step backward, fell against me, and slid to the ground. The cart fell on top of him. Without hesitation, I pulled the cart off him and the husband called 9-1-1. The young deli clerk ran quickly around the long sandwich counter and pulled a display pole away from his head. The store manager was there in less than a minute, and a customer who was a first responder or a nurse, came forward and took care of the man. A few minutes later, the man's son was there.
"Don't worry," said the husband. "The ambulance is coming."
"Oh, he doesn't need an ambulance," the son said. "He does this all the time."
Really.
The husband said he wanted to clobber the son. That's how I felt.
Fortunately, the paramedics came very soon after the son and attended to the father.
What a said story and unfortunately I see it every day in my job. I take care of other people's old people. There simply seems to be no tolerance for the elderly these days and it is heart breaking.
ReplyDeleteI am being extra nice to my kids and grand kids so they will be nice to me when I am old(lol)!
I am a new visitor and a new follower from Over 40 FF.
I hope when you have the chance you will stop by to say hello.
Hi, Doreen. Thanks for stopping by and becoming a follower of this blog. I try to find positive in any negative, and the one that I could find in that incident was how so many strangers were willing to help the poor man without hesitating. I can only hope the son will see the light.
ReplyDeleteYou bet, I'll be stopping by. :-)
that is cold. we see even our family as the 'other' sometimes.
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