Thursday, April 14, 2011

Day 104

I remembered what happened yesterday that I wanted to write about.

I was cashiering and a woman came up on her cell phone. This happens and I just scan the barcodes silently and wait for them to pay. Sometimes the person wants me to tell them the total amount but I don't offer it until they stop yapping and ask me verbally. So the woman stays on the phone all the while rummaging in her purse for money. When she finds the bill she wants to use she still rummages around in her purse, though, so at this point I am staring at the developing line but I figure she is looking for change.

But it wasn't change. She pulls out a pen and writes on the bill before giving it to me. I take it and finish her transction (remaining silent all the while as she is still too busy to acknowledge me since she is on the phone and all) and then I check out the other people in the line before I open the drawer and look at the bill. It said "Choose Jesus Christ".

I suspected it would read something like that. I debated for a while the motives behind my impulse to cross out the sentence. Was I against the message? Yes, for myself, but that doesn't mean it would be a bad message for others.What ultimately got me was the fact that a woman supposedly wanting to spread the word of her god was too busy to actually engage another person for a few moments while checking out but could be bothered to hold up a line to passively write a message on a piece of tender. What I don't like is when people can't see the big picture.

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