ok it's been awhile but i'll finish my story.
ok so after the first lady left, this 4 foot old lady with a thick german accent comes in she must have been about 80 and her hair was dyed black and she was looking for comfortable shoes. HER FEET GOT WIDER OVER THE YEEARS BECAUSE SHE DOESN"T DRIVE AND SHE STILL WALKS EVERYWHERE. i think that alone is amazing. So she starts telling me how she lived in San Diego and then she moves to Kingman, Az. San Diego is a much better place for people that don't have cars because they have an awesome transit system, but someone got ther to buy a house in kingman for a good price, and now she has to walk two miles to the bus stop to get around town. Can you believe that she was up in Flagjust visiting and sightseeing by herself, she rode the bus up here just to stay a couple days and go shopping and tour downtown. Aparently, at one time she and her husband had 20 acres of land before he died. She told me a beautiful love story about how she lived in germany when she was 18 and her future husband was a US soldier in the war and when she met him they didn't understand eachother's language, but she saw that he was smiling all the time and that made her fall in love with him...he was only 15 but lied to enter the war. so he promised he would come back for her but she didn't believe him and 6 months after the war he was on her doorstep ready to take her to the states...beautiful. She even showed me a picture of him from when they were both young...
She also told me that she fell in her yard in kingman one day and her neighbors just watched her crawl to the house until she could call 911. That's kingman for ya...she is a strong girl...so i recommended for her to go to kokopelli's as i do to all my customers who are visiting town, and jeff told me she went...i hope i have the willpower and energy that she has when i am her age...
So the third customer was a guy about 50 and he came in looking for dress shoes to replace his old ones that he bought at Sears 25 years ago. well of course styles have changed and he was making fun of the new style of dress shoes we had to offer. The funny thing is though is i don't think he wanted me to think that he was old and unhip because he kept asking me what i thought and was asking me for suggestions of what would look good on him and even tried on a pair of shoes that he made fun of...It amazed me that a well dressed man who obviously had a good job and probably status, cared so much about what i and other people would think. Like i hope i'm not that insecure when i am his age. Ne ways, when he checked out he payed with a credit card, i noticed that he has the same birthday as me...so it was just another addition to a crazy morning.
That's my story not that interesting but it made me think about a lot of things, we all tend to treat old people differently not realizing that they were young once too. but i realized that the american culture places too much emphasis on youth and treats the elderly like a burden rather tahen cherishing them for all the experience and knowlege that they gained while living on this earth.. that guy would not have been so insecure about being "old fashioned" if this weren't the sad truth. We will all be old someday, not in the near future, but i'm sure that once we get there life will seem as though it went too fast...so i say cherish every single day, cherish your family, especially your grandparents, without them you wouldn't be here.
She also told me that she fell in her yard in kingman one day and her neighbors just watched her crawl to the house until she could call 911. That's kingman for ya...she is a strong girl...so i recommended for her to go to kokopelli's as i do to all my customers who are visiting town, and jeff told me she went...i hope i have the willpower and energy that she has when i am her age...
So the third customer was a guy about 50 and he came in looking for dress shoes to replace his old ones that he bought at Sears 25 years ago. well of course styles have changed and he was making fun of the new style of dress shoes we had to offer. The funny thing is though is i don't think he wanted me to think that he was old and unhip because he kept asking me what i thought and was asking me for suggestions of what would look good on him and even tried on a pair of shoes that he made fun of...It amazed me that a well dressed man who obviously had a good job and probably status, cared so much about what i and other people would think. Like i hope i'm not that insecure when i am his age. Ne ways, when he checked out he payed with a credit card, i noticed that he has the same birthday as me...so it was just another addition to a crazy morning.
That's my story not that interesting but it made me think about a lot of things, we all tend to treat old people differently not realizing that they were young once too. but i realized that the american culture places too much emphasis on youth and treats the elderly like a burden rather tahen cherishing them for all the experience and knowlege that they gained while living on this earth.. that guy would not have been so insecure about being "old fashioned" if this weren't the sad truth. We will all be old someday, not in the near future, but i'm sure that once we get there life will seem as though it went too fast...so i say cherish every single day, cherish your family, especially your grandparents, without them you wouldn't be here.