Saturday I went to Home Depot to buy a replacement shovel. I wanted to make a quick exit and pay at the customer service desk close to where I parked but something invisible was tugging me to go out of my way to the main checkout.
The young man at the main checkout inquired if I found everything I needed for my project, quickly scanning my items he asked if I still went El Pollo Loco (restaurant.) Looking at him quizzically, concentrating intently to understand his broken English, he had a mild facial tic, I remembered him. He explained that he worked at El Pollo Loco before the lockdown and he never forgot his customers, never forgot me.
I asked him if he still worked at the restaurant and mentioned that I missed the self-serve salsa bar. He didn’t but liked his new job better, it was more interesting. He said the owner had promised to bring the salsa bar back but never did. We chatted for a while, he had an excellent memory for details.
These are the humble, dignified people that keep our economy humming, running smoothly. The people who know us. The people who we were so smugly lectured were non-essential.
Everyone is essential.
All jobs are essential.
He never forgot his customers, including me.
Happy Valentine’s Day dear friends!
…may you always feel at peace in kitten’s secret garden…
Such beautiful hues and a lovely story, kitten. The absurdities and insults including that form the "covid pandemic" will go down in ignoble history.
💘 nice to be remembered! Always thought “essential” workers meant there are “non essential”
Workers too. Like Black Lives Matter? Really Red, White, Brown lives don’t matter?
The deep state loves to divide and conquer.
Love is everyone is essential, all life is sacred,
Let your light shine and remember others and they in turn will be blessed too.
I live in a redneck area. 3 times over the last 2 days
Have seen the same Black truck bumper sticker
Says “ Black trucks matter”
After all this gaslighting of culture gone woke,
Covid Asymptomatic spreaders, pandemic of the non vaxxinated, we continue to Live and Love and
Remember each other! The State can spew hate division, a simple gesture of humane concern can
Erase all that by recognizing a fellow human being
No matter their status.
Thanks Kitten!! And what does your garden grow?
Roses, starlights, twinkles and bows. Spring is most likely there out in the garden there’s no political
Gaslighting anywhere. The Earth is sweet with its
Plants and bushes and trees. Sunlit face a soft warm breeze. Enjoy your projects ❣️