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2003-02-20 --- 22:09

Civility Training

DaBoy and his pop had to do two errands tonight. We went to a pharmacy and a nearby drive-thru-convenience-type-thingy.

At the Rx we were just picking up some anti-snot liquid-shots for daTot�

And the drive-and-buy was the quick milk fix, as he seems to have doubled up on it of late.

The first locale was the Snots R Us.

The boy and his dad dashed through the aisles, got his meds, collected some paper plates he liked (Butterflies! Lovely!) and headed back to the front where there were now fifteen to twenty folks in line at two registers.

YerSauceOfKindAndEasyGoing noted that there were a couple of additional employees back there�and asked very pleasantly if they had a plan to open one or two more to clean up the back-up.

The gent with the word Manager on his little name-tag, looked up and barked, � See the lines with the lights on? Those lines are the ones that are open.� And then he grinned and said, �If you had been standing in one of them instead of bugging me, you�d be closer� See, more people are in line now!�

DatSauce guy just kinda gawked. Then on realizing that he was done and serious, the first thought was to cross the counter and throttle him�but Sauce humans don�t do that and especially not with a son in tow.

Putting on the Most Polite Face And Gushing Sarcasm, yer diarist, thanked him for being EVER SO KIND and talented at customer-service and explained that he hoped with all his heart that this gentleman had a long and lovely career behind the counter at a �Slave-On.�

And DaBoy and his dad got in line.

DaKiddo was full of questions�and at the top of his piping voice.

�Dad. That was not very nice. Aren�t customers the ones that bring in money and stuff for him to get paid with? And why would just stand there and smile when he could move everyone through? And was he trying to make you mad? It�s good that you didn�t get mad, because that would have made him very sad, but how would he know that? I KNOW THAT ISN�T THE KIND OF PERSON I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP.�

And some of the customers in line applauded.

DaBoy looked shocked.

The guy and his chatty compatriot opened the next two lines and invited us over.

DatSauceGuy suggested to the customers in front of him that they split off and head for the registers, as they had been there longer.

It didn�t take long to depart.

Yer diarist was very proud of his soon to be 5.75 year old.

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Next stop, we pull into the brew and chew thru�

And there are three really wanna-be-Eminem 5� 6� Lords of Orange County standing directly in the path to the thru portion.

The boy in the center looked back and smiled.

They started to walk, ever so slowly. Pull up size three hundred and seven with the 22-inch inseam drawers. Saunter.

They look back. They see a guy in an older phast sedan with a kid. The guy looks like any kinda human in a bucket hat in a car.

They inch forward.

DatKid says, �Dad, are they doing that on purpose?�

By now my bumper is within inches of their no ass (legs stop at backbone) white butts.

DaDiarist Lowers The Window.

�Excuse, me. Gentlemen? You seem to be in the way. Do you mind moving over a bit so my son and I can get milk?�

The center boy looks at his pals and laughs and they saunter.

Sauce excuses himself to his son, puts the car in park and turns on the flashers.

He opens the door.

They are now looking back, slightly amused.

Yer diarist gets his little 6�4� frame out of the car. Takes off the bucket hat�and his various left-ear steel bits are now gleaming in their faces; his cinderblock-sized-noggin' is now truly visible. The steel toed Docs are on his feets.

Wandering up far too close to the gent in the center DatDumbAss diarist who wasn�t thinking about whether they were armed or not� repeated himself gently.

�Excuse, me. Gentlemen? You seem to be in the way. Do you mind moving over a bit so my son and I can get milk?�

Man, did they scurry.

Climbing back in DaKiddo said, �Maybe the middle teen-ay-jer had hearing problems like Mommy did, dad. It was good of you to try and let him read your lips.�

--DatSauceContinuesCourtesyTraining

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