As I am firmly bogged down with course work (text book finally came in + frantically trying to catch up with readings = no time for leisure reading L ) and don’t want to use up all my reserved reviews too quickly I thought I’d share this little item of interest with you instead.
This morning as I pulled up to my local Timmies drive-thru, running late as usual, over the speaker came “Hello my name is Vicki, thank you for choosing Tim Hortons, can I take your order” and I couldn’t help but think:
- do I really care the person serving my coffee’s name is Vicki?
- ’m aware I’m at Timmies, it’s the reason I pulled into the lot.
- do they get a lot of people in the drive-thru who think maybe they’re at McDonalds that they have to restaurant identify?
- how much later is this banal chatter going to make me?
- ust give me my g.d. coffee already (I’m not a morning person. Seriously, don’t get between me and my fix of caffeinated sugar before 10am or I will hurt you).
- really should care about Vicki, after all, she’s a person too.
And while I was grumbling in my head about the length of inane chatter over the drive-thru speaker airways (Timmies is not the only culprit), and that Vicki is lucky she didn’t pick this morning to ask if I wanted a “breakfast sandwich with that” I drove up to the window to discover the car ahead of me paid for my order.
How sweet, thoughtful, kind and wonderful.
And now I have been handed the Pay It Forward baton. Hmm, what random act of kindness shall I bestow?
Oh, and Vicki, it’s nice knowing your name, even if I forget it by tomorrow (I’m really terrible with names, sorry. Please don’t hold it against me, though I’m sure you’ll be there to remind me J )
Ciao for now,
L
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