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A bookstore worker recently wrote this Facebook post describing an encounter with a \u201clittle old lady\u201d who shocked everyone at the register. The post has since gone viral, and for good reason. Read it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posted by Christine Turel<\/strong>I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It\u2019s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She\u2019s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she wishes she could spend more time in it but her husband is waiting in the car \u2018OH! I BETTER BUY HIM SOME CHOCOLATE!\u2019 She piles a bunch of art supplies on the counter and then stops and tells me how my bangs are beautiful and remind her of the ocean (\u2018Wooooosh\u2019 she says, making a wave gesture with her hand.
Ok. I think to myself. Awesomely happy, weird little old ladies are my favorite kind of customer. They\u2019re thrilled about everything and they\u2019re comfortably bananas. I can have a good time with this one. So we chat and it\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then this kid, who\u2019s been up my counter a few times to gather his school textbooks, comes up in line behind her (we\u2019re connected to a major university in the city so we have a lot of harried students pass through). She turns around to him and, out of nowhere, demands that he put his textbooks on the counter. He\u2019s confused but she explains that she\u2019s going to buy his textbooks.
He goes sheetrock white. He refuses and adamantly insists that she can\u2019t do that. It\u2019s like, $400 worth of textbooks. She, this tiny old woman, boldly takes them out of his hands, throws them on the counter and turns to me with an intense stare and tells me to put them on her bill. The kid at this point is practically in tears. He\u2019s confused and shocked and grateful. Then she turns to him and says \u2018you need chocolate.\u2019 She starts grabbing handfuls of chocolates and putting them in her pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He keeps asking her \u2018why are you doing this?\u2019 She responds \u2018Do you like Harry Potter?\u2019 and throws a copy of the new Cursed Child on the pile too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally she\u2019s done and I ring her up for a crazy amount of money. She pays and asks me to please give the kid a few bags for his stuff. While I\u2019m bagging up her merchandise the kid hugs her. We\u2019re both telling her how amazing she is and what an awesome thing she\u2019s done. She turns to both of us and says probably one of the most profound, unscripted things I\u2019ve ever had someone say:
\u2018It\u2019s important to be kind. You can\u2019t know all the times that you\u2019ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It\u2019s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There\u2019s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kid thanks her again and leaves. I tell her again how awesome she is. She\u2019s staring out the door after him and says to me: \u2018My son is a homeless meth addict. I don\u2019t know what I did. I see that boy and I see the man my son could have been if someone had chosen to be kind to him at just the right time.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve bagged up all her stuff and at this point am super awkward and feel like I should say something but I don\u2019t know what. Then she turns to me and says: \u2018I wish I could have bangs like that but my darn hair is just too curly.\u2019 And leaves. And that is the story of the best customer I\u2019ve ever had. Be kind to somebody today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You never know how your actions may effect others around you, so you might as well be kind to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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