take the lesson from a small thing
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That afternoon, the queue at the supermarket was quite long, the three cashiers lined up on their desks and seemed preoccupied with the line of buyers carrying groceries. A ten-year-old red-ribbon girl stood on the edge of the row, close to the exit, a pencil and a pink ruler visible in the palm of her right hand. She looks patient, waiting for her queue to arrive, another person in front of her counting the change, and trying to check her groceries before leaving. Ask the cashier something, and still stand there checking the receipt and the change.
The cashier seemed to take a deep breath, staring back at the increasingly long queue. This cashier is reserved for buyers who only shop a few / few items only, so the payment process there is much faster and smoother, when compared with the other two cashier tables. But this actually makes the queue here always longer than other cashiers, because everyone always wants to be served quickly, especially those who only shop for a few items.
Not yet had the red-ribboned child stepped forward and approached the cashier's desk, suddenly the row behind him was boisterous, and in a hurry a fifties mother walked down the narrow queue side and tried to get close to the counter. But others are reluctant to pull over, or even ease their way forward. Not a few who grumble, even cursed the behavior of the mother.
"Queue dong, it's a house next door, no rules," said a buyer who was queuing in the back.
"Yes elah, we've queued from before, this people even play serobot aja," said the others.
The mother kept moving forward, until finally standing side by side with a red ribbon boy. His face looked tired and a bit pale, perhaps a little embarrassed at the mockery of many people there. The cashier was silent, without doing anything, while the person in front of him passed with a wry smile, full of ridicule.
"Sorry all, I am very rushed and have to get back home soon. Please, I want to pay this, Mbak, "said the mother with a halt.
"The right aja, Ma'am, people's period nyerobot so diladeni first?" Protested a buyer who again queued.
"Well, this Mbak should be training again nih if his attitude is like this," the other replied curtly.
"Sorry, Mother must queue like the others," said the cashier while allowing the red-ribbon boy to come forward.
"But I just bought a carton of this formula only, my baby's grandson crying thirst at home, please," he asked quietly. But the cashier remained silent and did not respond at all, while the queue in the back remained busy with their respective comments.
"Grandma can pay now, let me go home quickly. I can queue again from behind, just for a moment, "said the red-ribboned boy with a smile and invited her to the counter, as he left for the last queue.
The cashier was stunned for a moment, before finally inviting the mother who repeatedly thanked the child. Buyers along the queue are silent, and all of a sudden they are preoccupied with their own thoughts and shyness.
From the wise learning story of the smallest thing we can learn from a small child who gladly switched queue to allow an elderly mother who was in a hurry to buy milk to his grandson. In fact, what the mother's mother did was not a good example, because she was not being good at grabbing a queue, but anyway we can learn a lot about the nature of a very sincere child giving her time to a mother who is in a hurry to buy milk to his grandson.