It's New Year's Eve and you've got many things to do before the ball drops in Times Square at midnight. You rush to your local Hyvee which is packed with Holiday shoppers getting last minute chips, dips, salsa, and pop. You can barely move throughout the small rows crowded by shopping carts, children, and pondering shoppers standing in the middle of the aisle! You breathe deep and decide it"s worth it to try to turn the corner and go to the other side of the store, through the hundreds of people, for the sour cream. When you get to the sour cream you feel quite triumphant as you pick up the last "dollop of Daisy" left in the case. Then as you turn to make it to the checkout you see a young bachelor holding his over filled basket in one hand and his carton of 18 eggs tumbling out onto the tiled floor below. Eggs begin to roll everywhere, under the frozen goods, under people's feet, and only 3 remain broken in his open container resting on the tile floor.
What would you do?
Well, this is actually what happened to us on New Year's Eve at our local Hyvee, and let's just say that a random act of kindness came through in such a self absorbed occasion. All the shoppers stopped in their tracks and looked at the man. It was as if time stood still. As his face grew beet red, I began to wonder what people are thinking. Would someone ask for a clean up on aisle 9, would others begin to walk over him and the eggs and leave him in shame and embarrasssment all by himself? Before I could think my body was on the floor picking up eggs cracked and spurting out gooey mess. I collected 6 eggs. "This must help", I thought to myself, but as I lifted my head I saw a New Year's Eve miracle. The women in the beautiful coat with manicured nails stopped and picked up an egg, a man chuckled and picked up one too, and of course Todd was on the floor picking them up as well. As I carefully placed the eggs back into his carton on the floor I looked up into this young man's eyes. He said thank you, and his eyes said it all.
It made me wonder what kind of Rolling Egg situations would we encounter in 2009? We must be careful or we will miss the joy out of helping out each other on a daily basis. It doesn't matter if it is your best friend, family, or a random stranger. Be that beacon of light and catch that rolling egg!
Blessings,
Kathleen
