February 8th

Nathan:


Today was a snow day. The kids and I were stuck at home all day. It was CJ's day but she was stuck at home. Around 6pm Mel and I started to get a craving for some Ice Cream, that's also when we realized that no one had done anything nice for someone today. Mel told me that I should buy someone in line at the grocery store a candy bar. So that's when I planned to do but when I went to the grocery store it was like a ghost town and there was no one in line anywhere. So I got in line, kind of nervous (really think I shouldn't be so nervous 29 days into the 365 days of kindness) and there was an older lady at the counter checking out my Ice Cream. She was extremely cheery and made a joke about my Ice Cream. I asked her, if she could eat a candy bar right now what would it be? She said that she was a Snickers girl. So I said, snickers it is then and grabbed a Snickers bar. When she scanned it she said are you having this right now or should I put it in the bag? I said it's not for me it's for you. She said, oh thank you and started waving it in the air to the other cashiers saying she got a snickers. She then asked me why I bought her the snickers and I told her it was for being so kind. She said thank you for the compliment and told me to have a nice day. While driving in the car on the way home, I started thinking that people probably don't buy cashiers candy bars very often or even compliment them very often. I know I don't, not nearly enough, in fact I usually try to go to the self checkout lane just so I don't have to have to have any human contact. I guess I'm going to have to start waiting in line again.