Grouchy Is as Grouchy Growls (standard:humor, 903 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Apr 14 2013	Views/Reads: 2577/1724	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Did you ever have a day when everything went so well that you could not believe you were awake? I have dreams of times when everything goes perfect. Then, I awake to the reality of the world around me. I guess everybody dreams of at least one perfect day.

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in my direction like a laser beam. When she got to the counter she 
growled, “Are you the one ringing the bell?” 

With my finger on the bell, and nobody else in the store, it was hard to
answer in the negative. In fact, it was hard for me to say anything 
while she was looking at me the way she was looking at me. She stared 
for a moment, at least it was something close to a stare that burrowed 
itself deep into my soul and that goosy-kind of feeling evaporated. 

“It's customers like you,” she snarled, “that makes my day terrible.” 

She then looked at the one item I had laying on the counter for her to
ring up. She looked at it, and then looked up at me and then looked 
back at the item on the counter. 

Hissing like I have never heard hissing before, “Is this what you're
making all that racket about?” 

Did you ever have a day when you felt like crawling into a groundhog
hole and hiding until next February? 

On my way home from the store I thought about what David said in Psalm
23. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I 
will fear no evil: for thou art with me...” 

I can endure anything and anybody as long as God is with me. 


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