**written on my notebook on 09/18/09**
I was at Tim Horton's today. After having a small iced cappuccino and toasted "everything" bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese (my favorite), I had to go to the washroom. Thank goodness Tim Horton's has a family washroom because it is just so hard to urinate in a small toilet leaving the door halfway open so I can watch my baby and do my thing at the same time. Anyway, after answering to nature's call, I cleaned up and was on my way out of the family washroom when halfway to the door pushing the stroller out, a woman with a stroller bumped on us, leaving me knocking off her iced cappuccino from her cup holder. I was walking backwards because that's how we moms open the door (it is just easier to push the door open with our backs) . Anyway, good thing I was in a calm mood during the incident, hence the purpose of this note --> being patient.
I told her in a calm voice, you should have let me out first here, as I picked up her iced cappuccino (for some reason nothing spilled on the floor) in which she replied a simple "yeah" .
People should have faith that other people are kind and considerate and in doing so, patience will just come naturally. If that lady thought of me as someone who will help her get in the washroom and that I will hold the door for her, she would not have wasted time running to the door and knocking us. But instead, she only saw the door and the urgency that she has to have that door remained open so that it will be easy for her to get in. Yeah right!
And you all know how annoying it is in the subway right? Let the people get off first. Patience is useful. It is a virtue for a reason. But for me, patience, having it or lacking it can make or break your day. It is up to you.
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