Today I was at a grocery store and having a look at the food bar. Hmm, spaghetti, I thought. But was it any good? I’d never tried their spaghetti before, and, admittedly, I was iffy about store made food. I saw a woman filling up a container of the spaghetti. I asked, “How’s their spaghetti,” “I don’t know…I’m just getting in for my husband, he likes spaghetti.” she replied. I let her know that I was iffy about it and she said that I could ask for one of the sampling bowls (the small, salsa type cups at Mexican restaurants) from an employee.
So I went to an employee, I asked “Hey, may I have a sample of the spaghetti?” “Sure.” She walked over with me as the woman who had filled her container was now starting to leave. She filled the little salsa up and the woman who’d filled her container stopped and looked back directly at me. “How is it?” The store clerk handed me the spaghetti which I promptly tried. With one fork of spaghetti in hand, I raised my other hand THUMBS UP to the women getting spaghetti for her husband. She looked a bit relieved, nodded her head, smiled and went on her way.
As I was walking to get a full size container to fill that baby up, another woman who’d just seen me try the spaghetti, asked, “Did you just try the spaghetti?” “Yeah, it’s good, I’m getting it.” This woman then nodded her head, went and filled her plate up (she was eating in) with the spaghetti and other foods.
What’s the whole point of this brief and simple little story? It’s my belief that when we work together, openly ask our simple and small little questions to complete strangers that good things can come of it, and, it can impact others. This is a small event that happened. But it affected five people, including the store employee and that woman’s husband. When we interact with each other, we build relationships with each other.
In your personal and intimate relationship, when did you stop having those little bonding bits of communication with your partner? I’m encouraging you, start…again.
Jim