Grandpa
A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his
badly behaved 3 year-old grandson. It's obvious to her that he
has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the
sweet aisle, biscuits in the biscuit aisle; and for fruit, cereal and
pop in the other aisles.
Meanwhile, Gramps is working his way around, saying in a controlled
voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long . . . easy, boy."
Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay,
William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in
there, boy."
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart,
and Gramps says again in a controlled voice, "William, William, relax
buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."
Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading
his groceries and the boy into the car. She said to the elderly gentleman,
"It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how
you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how
loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay
William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."
"Thanks, lady," said the grandfather, "but I'm William...the little bastard's name is Kevin."
