#learnedtoday

I'm in line at the checkout, with my groceries, I look on my phone, I'm on a break and don't want to be back too late.
“May I be for, I'm in a hurry, you know,” I hear, when I look around in the face of an elderly gentleman, his shop car fully loaded.
“Sorry”
I say kindly.
“But you're still young, you have all the time in the world to do your shopping”
I sigh,
“What? it's like that anyway”
i look at the gentleman
“Sorry, but I'm on a break from work now and have to start again so I'm in a bit of a hurry too, if I didn't, or you had fewer messages than I would have liked to leave you in front of you”
this makes mister seemingly angry.
“Do you treat your own big parents like that too”
i shrug.
“They would just line up with me”
I say.
Sir does not agree with this.
“that childhood today is so disrespectful, when I was the age of this k**je, then the youth were still respectful to their superior”
From this, my neck hair will stand up from afloat.
“I don't like the fact that you call me that”
I say
The gentleman looks at me
“And I don't care, what do you think. “
If Edwige, (my partner) had been there, she would have said something, made sure that the other side of me had now shut up.
But it's not there.
“What I think is that I pay that shopping cart of yours, after all, I pay your generous pension, and it must be a big deal because you can buy a full cart like that. And when you were my age, people still showed respect for the people who made sure they had to eat”
I feel a hand on my shoulder,
“Ma'am, checkout 3 opens you may hook up there”
the cassier says to me, I look at the gentleman with the shopping cart.
Was that eruption in my head?
Did I learn to hold back today?
I step aside and walk to the other box office, look at sir,
“If you go for me, I'll get this cash register”