Grugger’s Way

Or, are Old People just moving too Slow?  

I remember my Father saying that he didn’t understand why everyone was in such a big hurry.  The place he noticed it most was at the grocery store checkout:  

• “My God, people get upset if you want to write a check nowdays,” and, 
• “they act like it is the end of the world if they don’t just ZIP through the check out!” 
• “A lot of times they don’t even look up at the checker or say anything at all.”
•  ”Young people are not even the worst.” 

He noticed that it appeared to him that middle-aged people, men and women, were the most impatient, and were always stressed out.  Yes, I think many of us do try to squeese too much into each day and into each trip.

What a pleasure it is to not be in such a big hurry anymore.  The other day I was sitting in my car at a bank drive-through, along with about six other cars. We were waiting for the tellers to finish our deposits, etc., when we all overheard one lady yelling at the tellers.  She had pushed the call button and informed them that she couldn’t sit here all day…and asked the teller, “are you new?”   “All the slow people work on Mondays and Fridays…”   “I need to get home…!”

Wow.  I could hear other people comment on how rude this woman was acting.  I was sitting right next to the teller window and could see the reactions of all the tellers, although I couldn’t hear what they were saying except when they pushed the microphone button and talked to a customer.  They handled it all pretty well, I thought.  Every teller looked to be under 25 years old, and they were the ones who displayed patience.

I think we eventually become more patient in our older years. 

I guess we learned a little something from all our hurrying when we were younger:  it didn’t gain us any extra time. 

And, as a matter of fact, considering how we all end up eventually, it makes no sense at all to be in such a big hurry. 

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