I am not going to denounce Wal-Mart but it does seem like the majority of offensive comments I have heard, have been at this particular establishment. It is ironic because Wal-Mart is supposed to be the place where you “live better.” It‘s also ironic that just the other day I was speaking to a friend saying it had been sometime since anyone had said anything inappropriate to me. Then I was shopping, minding my own business when, a rather sketchy looking gentlemen started starring at me and my sprouts?!? I deliberately did not make eye contact with him and I started to push through the isle when he shouts out “what’d you bring your neighbors kid shopping”?!?!?!? With that I just continued down the isle, but come on really? Really!? Now granted in the realm of rude, offensive comments this is pretty low but, still annoying and hurtful. Thankfully the children with me were not old enough to understand what had happened.
I will say that I find most people to be full of questions but pleasant. These kinds of run-ins are few and far between. It’s the one bad apple that has to go and muck it up, trying to rain on your parade and make you feel small. To that I think we should smile at these people and remember that:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Well said, my worst comments seem to come from Walmart as well. Check out www.peopleofwalmart.com but be forewarned not kid friendly :) it will make you smile.
ReplyDeleteNegative comments, ESPECIALLY the subtle ones are hard and thankfully few and far between but they stick....this is why we have to prepare our children and not hide our heads in the sand.
Attention: When I said "Sprouts" I meant my children... It has come to my attention that sprouts might be interpreted as meaning something else :)
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