Sunday, June 24, 2012

Patience William



A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson.
It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the sweet aisle, biscuits in the biscuit aisle; and for fruit, cereal and pop in the other aisles. Meanwhile, Granddad is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long . . .. easy, boy."  Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay, William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."

At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and Granddad says again in a controlled voice, "William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."

Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car.

She said to the elderly gentleman, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."

"Thanks," said the grandfather, "but I'm William ...... the little brat's name is Kevin."

BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED FOR THEY ARE THE ONES WHO LET IN THE LIGHT!

4 comments:

ShimonZ said...

very amusing

Judith said...

Ha! I love this.

I'm glad that the guy didn't give into the tantrums, though.

On a separate note, I know I've read some blogs on autistic kids who get pretty agitated in situations like this. Not that I have any experience with it at all. Just saying that some kids might be special needs.

Ruth said...

Sometimes it is a special needs child. Sometimes being patient with someone else is the most important thing we do all day. I just thought it was funny that the Grandpa was encouraging himself.

Unknown said...

A lesson in self control!