We Saw It With Our Own Eyes

Hi Everyone,

This is not the blog that I had originally planned to write today. But what happened yesterday changed my mind. My wife and I had to go to our local grocery store yesterday and since it was a Saturday, the parking lot was full as usual. I found a woman loading her car with groceries, so I decided to wait for her space. The woman glanced at our car a few times while she was loading her car, albeit at a slow pace; but patience has its virtues and I wanted her space. Editor's note: the woman appeared to be middle age, probably in her fifties. But what happened next surprised us both.

When she had finished unloading her cart, she pushed the empty cart behind the rear bumper of a large SUV. My wife and I looked at each other in a kind of disbelief. She then proceeded to get in her car and backed out of the space. She then motioned for me to pull into her vacant space. I gladly obliged her. As we pulled into the space, we realized that there was a woman in the driver seat of the SUV that now had a cart right behind it. The SUV was so tall that there was no way the driver could have seen the cart. As soon as I parked, my wife jumped out of the car to tell the driver about the cart. The driver was extremely happy that she had been told about the cart and thanked my wife and then me for telling her.

Now for the ah ha moment...... As my wife and I walked by the SUV to the rear bumper, where we were going to take and use the cart, the woman who put the cart behind the SUV, had waited in her car and rolled up to us to tell us that she hadn't put the cart behind the SUV. She told us that it was someone else, and that she decided not to move the cart since we may have needed it. What?????!!!!! What did she just tell us? That she didn't put the cart behind the SUV? Was this woman stupid or did she lack any common sense what so ever? She knew that we were watching her while she unloaded the cart. Why would she: 1) put a cart behind a vehicle and 2) then lie about it? She could have just driven off. But noooooo, she waited for us to lie and try to place the blame on someone else. What was she thinking? Common sense should be on her wish list for her next upcoming birthday!

My wife and I were flabberasted about the whole little incident. Having worked in Human Resources for a long time, I am never really surprised about what people can say or do. But this woman takes the cake.

Til next week,

Peter