Gracie and her friend Bo love cream of wheat but you cannot buy it in SMA so they asked me to bring them three boxes each...now I know cream of wheat is everywhere and think of all the stores I have been in that have sold it but I waited till my final shop at Walmart last evening to get it..no point driving cream of wheat around all over the States was my theory......
So as I am going up and down the aisles in Walmart there were two employees stocking shelves and I asked them where I could find cream of wheat?
I do not know if it was my accent or what but one of the women pulled out her I phone and searched for the product and told me sorry we do not carry cream of wheat!!!..my immediate reaction was I cannot arrive in SMA without it my life would have been miserable, maybe a slight exaggeration.....but I thought now I have to go and find another grocery store....
I continued shopping and a few minutes later this lovely Latino woman approached me with a box of cream of wheat in her hand and said sorry but I overheard your conversation and there are many boxes of cream of wheat down aisle 18 and handed me the box!!!
I just smiled at her and said that is so very kind of you and she said my pleasure!!! This is the kind of interaction I get most days in Mexico that make me feel so humble and warms my heart!!!
So Gracie and Bo...sleep well..... wheat is on its way!!!!!!
Yashi Kochi!!
1 comment:
Yes, hot cream of wheat, hot grits, and hot oatmeal, a lot of people in the US south grew up on those foods for breakfast on cold mornings before they headed out to school. There is always a craving for them like having a cup of coffee or a cuppa!
Post a Comment