YOU MADE MY DAY

     So, I have to share this story from something that happened yesterday.  It is just too darned cute.

I went to AAA yesterday for my usual oil change.  Got checked in, they had my car, when I noticed two young boys running around.  They were probably 5 or 6 years old and looked to be twins.  They were with Grandpa and he seemed to be spending a lot of time in the foyer of this business.

Anyway, at one point, the guy who was checking us in stepped from behind his desk and the first thing you noticed about him was that he had a prosthetic leg.  He was wearing shorts so it was totally noticeable. 

When he stepped from behind his desk the twins stopped their running around and stared at him with something akin to horror in their eyes.  They both stepped up to Grandpa and stayed close at hand still staring at the clerk.

Shortly the Grandpa moved on to another section of the room and the clerk was back behind his desk.    

A few minutes later I walked up to the clerk and said, “You ought to talk to those boys about your leg.”  He acknowledged that he noticed their response as well.  I then shared a story from my distant past. 

For a short time, while I lived in Fairbanks, AK, I was a Girl Scout leader.  One day I took my troop of 11/12-year-olds to the community pool to work on a swimming badge.   As we entered the lobby of the building another group was leaving.  They were a group of people who all had pretty severe mental disabilities.  Just like those twins, my girls hovered around me with fear in their eyes.  I went up to the adult of the group and asked if she could come to our next troop meeting and talk to the girls about her group.  She came, did an excellent job at explaining who they were and why they were in her care.  The girls seemed to get it and asked lots of good questions.

The AAA clerk looked at me, smiled, and then went on with his day.  An hour later, when I was checking out, he approached me and said…I talked to those boys.  They asked me what happened to my leg.  He told them, “I didn’t take care of myself, I didn’t eat my vegetables.”

I let out with a chuckle and went on my way.

I sure hope the message took with those boys, in a totally different way than I was expecting.

And thank you AAA clerk, for being so compassionate and caring of two young boys.  You made my day.