― Deepak Chopra
Today was
Mother-Daughter Day at my daughters' school.
One of the activities entailed making our own puzzle by drawing on a
blank puzzle template. It occurred to me
that it would be nice to have a box in which to keep the puzzle pieces and I
remembered that I had a small cookie tin at home. After the activity, I picked up the cookie tin and headed to my
local CVS. I printed out a few photos,
including two that I wanted to paste on the tin and then went looking for glue. I wasn't sure what kind of glue would work, so
I grabbed a bottle of school glue as well as a bottle of rubber cement and took
them to the employee at the photo desk on the off chance that he might have a
sense of which would be better. Lizardo,
the fabulous photo desk guy, immediately took charge. He said that I could not use the school glue
and had to use the rubber cement. Lizardo
asked me to cut the photos and let him do the rest. For the next half hour or so, Lizardo worked
on my project -- which was much more complicated than I had anticipated -- while
he juggled his cashier duties by jumping on to the register next to his. Without missing a beat, he would ring people
up and then return to the rubber cement project. End result:
When I picked up my daughter at school, I handed her a lovely tin with a
photo of our puzzle on the outside and a photo of the two of us on the inside
of the lid. Who knew that in this era of
self check-out, I would find an abundance of kindness at the CVS photo desk?
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