Pleasantly Surprised

Lately, I've been a bit (okay, so quite a bit) gloomy. For various reasons, I've just been in the mood to curl up under my heated blanket, eat tubs of ice cream, and watch TV. I've recently lost hope in humanity because I keep running into the stupidest people who just seem to have no idea that there is a world around them and it doesn't revolve around them.

Tonight I was at King Soopers (I forgot to get band aides :/ ) , walking out to my car, carrying four bags of groceries and a box of soda-ish cans. I was walking behind these two guys who had red plastic cups (and we all know what that means!) and talked like they had never been to school.

"Yo. Yeah dude. Like totally awesome." Okay. That's not really what they said, but you get the picture.
They both had tight pants and funny, neon-colored hats with their skater sweat shirts. They were the classic long-boarders I see all over campus. Stupid. Obnoxious. And conceited.

Coincidentally, they had parked next to my car and since they were a bit ahead of me, I let them get in their car first, but as I was waiting for them to get in, my box of cans ripped and fell to the ground. I was embarrassed, but more than anything I was caught off guard. Then, to my utter surprise, one of the guys stood up (instead of getting in the car) and said...

"Do you need some help, ma'am?" And looked at me with earnest eyes, and even took a step towards me to help.

Caught off guard, I blurted out in response that I was fine and that I was waiting to get into the car next to him. He then instantly apologized for being in the way and taking so long. I said it was alright, and it really was. Where had this kind of kindness come from? Not only had he surprised me by offering his help, but he had also respectfully called me "ma'am" and apologized for being in the way! I was in shock. Complete shock. Now, he may not be the best of guys and I'm not saying he's my new hero, but if more people were like that part of him, then I would certainly not be despaired....

...but maybe there is hope for humanity.

Now, I've got some Ben and Jerry's and I'm going to go back to being hopelessly addicted to the show Primeval, which my friend Beth got me hooked on!