This morning I stopped at my corner street vendor for my daily purchase of two diet Pepsi’s. I must sing my vendor-lady’s praises. Not only does greet me with a warm smile and charge me only $2.50 for two 24-ouncers (what a steal!), she has a heart of gold. A few weeks back, I decided to switch from two caffeine-free diet Pepsi’s, to one caffeine free and one caffeinated. She saw me reach into the ice cooler and double checked to make sure I didn’t want two caffeine-free ones instead. I thanked her for remembering but that I had decided I needed some caffeine in the mornings again.
Today, I plunged into the icy cooler for the same—luckily, she caught a huge mistake—I had picked up a regular Pepsi instead a diet one. Ugh—the horror that could have been! She saved me from a wasted soda that I’d have to give away free of charge to a co-worker. She delicately put two diets (one caffeinated, one caffeine-free) in a plastic bag and sent me on my way with a sweet giggle. Her morning motherly care makes me feel I can handle yet another work day. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d happily cut the crusts off my sandwich from my home-packed lunch if I asked.
