I got my feelings hurt yesterday… didn’t even see it coming…

I had to return a super cute outfit

(that looked not so cute on me when I got home… Uggg always so disappointing! lol)

As I walked up to the counter, the cashier, picked up a box and said very sternly… ” I’ll be with you in a minute…”  No smile, no Hello… Her abruptness just super caught me off guard, like I was in the principal’s office… and I was going to be in HUGE trouble… LOL

She didn’t wait for me to respond, she just walked to the back..

 As I stood at the counter, for what seemed like forever!  HAHA   (probably like 1 min..)

I could feel myself getting upset..

I wasn’t mad… I was just confused..

It was more like …

“Wow! She super hates me! ” LOL

When she came back, she grabbed the receipt from my hand… didn’t look at me, didn’t say anything…

I was trying waaayyyy to hard to not get upset… talking myself down, but it was too late…

She took my bag, and pulled the jumper out  (It really  was super cute… felt disappointed again! Haha)

She  couldn’t find the tag to beep it with her gun thingy…

Now she was really mad… for sure!

 As she started flinging the “super cute”  jumper around the counter, and breathing all  crazy…  …I remembered there wasn’t a tag on it when I checked out,

and said to her…  “Oh, yeah, there isn’t a tag, the girl who rung it up used the inside label ..sorry about that :) “

It was just all bad…

After a few minutes of her being more frustrated, she figured it out and finished my return…

She handed me the receipt back…

Didn’t say a word…

So I didn’t…

It was an awkward stare down…   Who was going to say “Thank you”  first…

LOL

I didn’t…

She didn’t…

I started to walk away… but like I said… it was too late…. I just couldn’t process why she was so angry…

I turned around and said…

“Not sure what I did to cause you to be so mean… but whatever it was, I’m sorry…”

She walked to the edge of the counter rather quickly and yelled..

“WHAT DID I DO!”

Not like a question… but like a statement…

I felt my eyes tear up…

I just said… “Really…?”

And walked away…

I walked around the store for a minute.. looking at clothes… but I couldn’t calm my heart down…

As I walked to my car, I sensed  a familiar sweet, calm touch…  “It wasn’t you, Lisa…”

I could feel my heart  take refuge…

It wasn’t me at all.

She was not happy about something…

I don’t know how she would have reacted if I would have been more aware of her being upset, and maybe even just  asking her if she was ok.. just anything to reach out to her, but I was just taken completely off guard…

I was just trying to return something, and it was all about me! LOL

As I sat in my car, and took a minute to process, I felt bad…

I felt bad for her…

I felt bad for not being more caring.

So…

Today I will take note of what happened yesterday, and I will pray for her tender heart to be okay…

And I am reminded, it is better for my soul to be kind… patient and giving then right..

Live in Love,

Lisa

“For what good will it do someone if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”

Matthew 16:26

 Being kind is waaayyy better :)