Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Stressed - Shopping for the differently abled.

Boy, am I stressed and unless I'm stressed to the point of insanity I'm just not funny. I'm in the middle of letting my church know that I'm not happy and am planning to find another church and my job at the other church is picking up at break neck speed. Spent my morning arguing with a guy about a room booking. All part of the process to saving souls I guess.

If I do start heading out to other churches to see what's out there I think there will be tons of material for future blogs! Maybe a whole blog based on those experiences.

I do have a story about a grocery store. I was in Dominion at Don Mills Centre. Because the mall itself is closed down most of the grocery store patrons are from across the street - which are mostly seniors' buildings.

It didn't take me very many aisles to realise that I was the most fit and able bodied person in the room. Very sad. Walker, wheel chairs, canes. Every aisle had someone needing help reaching, hearing or reading. Unfortunately, I like to stop and help people. I quickly realised that this is not the grocery store to go to if I am in a rush because there are just too many people needing help! Just listening to one deaf old woman try to put in an order on a personalized birthday cake was enough to make me want to jab my eyes out with a rusty nail. Even the people who didn't have obvious impediments obviously had impediments if you know what I mean.