Whitney Fleming is urging other moms to show more kindness and patience to retail workers this holiday season, especially young ones.
in tow. Who hasn't wanted to pull their hair out when trying to both push a shopping cart and wrangle a toddler away from the hot new out on display? And that might mean that some of the best of us have unintentionally lost our cool, but that's no excuse to take it out on the innocent retail worker who happens to be there when stress levels get high.
"He smiled and replied: 'I can always tell who are the nice and easy customers even before they get to my line,'" she recalled him saying. "'Really?' I laughed. 'Lots of old, crotchety ladies, huh?'"Fleming was shocked. Surely, he must have been joking. "Another yelled at him because the grocery store set up a Pokemon display near his register and she was mad that she had to tell her kids no every two minutes about buying the cards. Apparently, the worst was the mother who asked to speak to the manager about his job performance because he could not locate the toy her son wanted with his kids' meal.""At that moment, I realized, this Target cashier could one day be my daughter," she wrote."It could be your son.".
"As the young man handed me my receipt, I handed over the gift card," she recalled."'Have a Frappuccino on me. It's for dealing with all of us crazy, stressed-out moms.'"
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