Today, my two friends and I went to Stop & Shop to but ingredients for Rice Crispy Treats, but actually they were Crispy Rice Treats because we are cheap and bought the knock off brand. We walked in the store and there were these crazy little devices that scanned you Stop & Shop card and then the bar codes of all the things you could buy, and added them up for a total. Was sweet man. So we grabbed one, and I hoped in a shopping cart, and started cruising around. We weren't causing any trouble or being loud, but the amount of dirty looks you get when you're a teenager having some fun is incredible.
As we were scanning a bunch of random items just for the hell of it this lady came over to us. She was tall with very bad teeth, her clothes were worn out, but she was wearing a nice quality self-made knit hat. We were real surprised, because she didn't start talking to us; she started to sing. The song went something like this, "Grandma told me to talk my socks off before i got in the bathtub...". Legit. Then she walked away, and we just sat there laughing cause we couldn't believe that it had just happened.
Later on our way to the checkout the same woman came back to us, and we told her that we liked her singing. She said that she was pleased and asked to read us a scripture. She pulled a bible out of her bag and read with an incredible passion. Then said that she came over to us
1) Because I looked a little strange in the shopping cart (which I was still sitting in)
2) Because we were the "young and beautiful generation with so much to give, but for some reason seemed to hold back so much"
I've been thinking about what she said about our generation, and it seems kinda true. We have so many opportunities now, but a lot of people don't take advantage of them. Technology brings us forward, but it's rare when we use all this technology progressively.
After, she sang us one more song, in the middle of the supermarket, and then gave us some pamphlets...turns out she was a Jehovah's Witness, but I'm still glad we didn't go to Big Y instead.
