Taken for granted
The human species is honestly disgusting.
I was at work tonight and I had a regular customer come to my line with his groceries. He was in a electric wheelchair. I always saw him in the store but tonight was the first time I actually had to deal with him.
So he started to talk and you could hear in his voice that he wasn’t “all there” like he had some kind of mental handicap which made it a little difficult for me to understand but for some reason I just really focused on what he was saying. It’s like my mind knew to care for this guy.
So, I had a guy bagging his groceries, that obviously knew my customer but then he ended getting a customer and had to leave from bagging so another lady came to bag his groceries and when she started a third bag he FREAKED OUT!!
He kept yelling “no no no I nee two bags not three I asked for two! not three please not three I need two bags!”
and I was just shocked I just stood there listening to him. He got all shooken up and was stuttering and about to CRY! and he kept saying “I can’t fit three bags in with my wheelchair to go up the device that take me to my apartment three bags won’t fit!”
I wanted to cry,
this poor guy couldn’t even walk up to his apartment with groceries. He had to sit in a wheelchair his whole life and could only buy two bags worth of groceries.
He kept apologizing to me ” I’m so sorry I’m so sorry it’s just when things make my life more complicated than they already are I freak out and I’m sorry I don’t know what to do”
and I completely understood how he felt because my father is the same way shit I’M THE SAME WAY.
I just wanted to cry, I wanted him to feel ok and be able to walk.
and all i could think about is
human beings take everything they have for granted.
People bitch about having to take stairs or are even TOO LAZY to take stairs.
But for some people, like this customer I had, they just wish to be able to walk up stairs.
Being able to walk is something humans take for granted.