So you had a bad day...

I've had the song, "So you've had a bad day" stuck in my head since on the way home from work.   No, my day wasn't bad...but, good grief did I witness someone's...

I stopped in at Michael's on the way home to pick up something for Rotary.   I walked around a bit looking for what I needed, then finally just thought "this is silly--go ask!" since i had no idea where to find what I wanted... anyway, not finding an employee anywhere I just went up and got in line to ask a cashier.    Behind me was a lady and behind her a mother with 2 kids....an infant and toddler in a cart..   I am not positive what happened, but heard a 'thud' and turned to see the tot on the ground and he/she started screaming--apparently fell out of the cart.    Now, one may assume tons of sympathy, and upset mother...but this mother...UGH!    No sympathy or "are you ok" to the tot...but "OH GREAT...THAT WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF THAT LADY WOULDN'T HAVE JUMPED LINE" (No, not me...another lady who was between us.).    I was like WTF!?  Seriously...this mother's child just fell out of a cart onto a hard floor...and her thought is it happened because someone allegedly jumped line!    The other woman apologized & said all you'd have had to do was say "excuse me, I'm in line" and the Mother just WENT OFF...   Just blew me away.....  And, leaving me to hope she was just having a bad day...and that on a 'normal' day, her concern would have been for the child that fell (who she claimed was fine and didn't hit its head...)...and not reaming out another person....    

So, begged me to wonder about my bad days....and how I may lash out at others.  I know some of you have been on the receiving end of that--and I apologize...  I try to keep my bad days to myself....because that negative energy only brings others down.

I had a choice when this was all going down....   to stand back or get involved...I went with just standing back...nothing was going to calm the irrate mother.   But, fortunately she left... the other woman was obviously upset and talkin with the cashier about it--who was also upset.    Someone else came over and was commenting... and I said "Let's just hope she was having a bad day....and that isn't a 24/7 occurance"!

With that said... we all have a choice when confronted with someone else's black cloud.... let it engulf us, or push through to the sun.    I'm happy to say, I pushed through...and pray that she has found her way out of her own black cloud...