A man observed a woman in the grocery store
with a three year old
girl in her basket. As they passed the cookie
section, the child asked
for cookies and her mother told her "no."
The little girl immediately
began to whine and fuss, and the mother
said quietly, "Now Ellen, we
just have half of the aisles left to go
through; don't be upset. It
won't be long."
He passed the
Mother again in the candy aisle. Of course, the little
girl began
to shout for candy. When she was told she couldn't have any,
she
began to cry. The mother said, "There, there, Ellen, don't cry.
Only
two more aisles to go, and then we'll be checking out."
The
man again happened to be behind the pair at the check-out, where
the
little girl immediately began to clamor for gum and burst into a
terrible tantrum upon discovering there would be no gum purchased today.
The mother patiently said, "Ellen, we'll be through this ch
eck out
stand in five minutes, and then you can go home and have a
nice nap."
The man followed them out to the parking lot and
stopped the woman to
compliment her. "I couldn't help noticing how
patient you were with
little Ellen..."
The mother broke in,
"My little girl's name is Tammy... I'm
Ellen." |
