Nothing beats the effects smiles have on you.
While housesitting a few months ago, I had quite a remarkable little time when I went out to a mall. Now, I’m not big on malls, but where I was staying, there was no high street (so to speak). It was the mall or nothing, and my general thing the mall visits is to put blinkers on, do what needs to be done and get out. However, while there, I decided to stop at a cafè and have a coffee.
As this was a new mall, I decided to have a wee look around.
Now, there was one thing that I was looking for, and that was arm warmers. It was getting cold, and sometimes, a little added warmth on the arms was needed. Of course, one can always use leg warmers on the arms. It doesn’t really matter. So I looked for either arm or leg ones.
I went into one store. It’s a large franchise store, and I’ve bought items I like from them. I thought they might have what I was looking for, so rather than look around the store, I thought I would go and ask.
I went up to the counter and asked a pretty young woman if they had any arm or leg warmers.
And she said, “Oh, I don’t think we do.”
But she said we may have leg warmers.
And she takes me into a particular shelving area.
Realising there were none, she said, “Oh no, they’re all gone.”
Next thing, this guy walks over.
He was gorgeous. He was charming, a Pacific Islander, and adorable. I’m sure he was a manager or something similar.
The young woman asked him if they had any arm or leg warmers, as none were on the shelf.
He replied, “Oh, are we really? Oh, that’s not good enough. I will get onto that immediately because we definitely should have some at this time of the year.”
I quickly responded that I wasn’t from this neighbourhood and would check this store when I got home.
He then said, “It’s still not good enough. I will get onto head office, and I will get some. In the meantime, maybe you can go to (and said the name of another store) and see if they have them.”
He went on to add. “It’s a very, very beautiful store.”
And I said, “Oh, I love that place.”
And in unison, they both said, “I know it’s gorgeous.”
One thing led to another, and the next thing he was talking to the young woman about candles, saying what sort of smell of candles he likes, and this young woman was confirming that she loved the vanilla and jasmine smells.
They continue chatting amongst themselves about different candle perfumes, and the next thing he says, “Oh, we should get some in here and have them going. How beautiful it would be.”
Then he turns and looks at me and says, “How funny. I should be asking
you to spend money. What am I doing? I’m getting the store to spend money!” With that, all three of us burst out laughing.
It was just absolutely delightful. I left there feeling very positive and uplifted and realising how magical the effect of smiles is. It crossed my mind that I should have taken a video of it. I was tempted to go back and ask him if he wouldn’t mind being on social media because he was absolutely delightful.
A beautiful spirit.
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