Like A Skippin Needle On A Record
 

STROAKES SUCK!! They make you look funnie and talk fuuny and wolk funny and everything. Butt so wat right? I have alreddy come leeps and boundds siense mine strted.

Soo I goes to the food store other days and get some stuff. I am in line and paid wit cahs. Mine big problem is I get a word stuck in mine head and it is like a neaddle on a record. I repeet it over and over for a minoot or two.

So it came to 38.84. I give the litle teenager girly 40.00 She give me receipps. I said monie, money, money, money, over and over. Like a broken record. I couldn stop. She was real rood to me and loos overt at the littles boy of 15 baggar and says - whatts this F-ing morrrons probleams?

She says it low butt I hers her. And so does the ladies behhin me. She stpes up (from heaven with wings) and offars to help. I said yes. I wants mine change and the chick doesn't relize she doens give to me.

So whos morron? The lady reeamed her bad! (Evil laugh) :D Than she grabs that spekers things and hollered for magrement helps. Reeemed the manager up and down and he firred the girles on spot.

He apoligizzesd to me alot and was freked. I was smilling. I :hug: the lady and thnked her sooo much. She was from God!! I did feel vallidited. and respected. Just though I would past tis along to us!!!!

Chin Up!!!!!!! Luve to you! Mark :grouphug:

What a truly wonderful story!!

There really are good people out there, and you got to meet one when it really mattered. I'm happy for you. Strokes suck, but sometimes they create opportunities for people to show real human decency.


As for the girl: Instant karma really does happen sometimes. Mazeltov!! Vic

Your post made my day!
 

Mark,

I am so glad that the clerk did not get away with being so horrible to you. :mad: We all have enough problems without having to deal with unnecessary stuff, ya know?

:Girl(angel-flying):Thank God that he had an angel there to assist you. :trampoline: :circlelove:

:Sorry: that you had to deal with a jerk like that but justice was served! Chalk up one for the good guys. :ROTFLMAO::ROTFLMAO:

Best regards my friend.

:cool: EJ

Thank you so much for sharing this!

Oh, I got so angry, then almost giddy right after when you told of the "good outcome".

I'm so glad for the ladies behind you. :) I'm so glad you feel validated. :)

I'm with Vicc in that I hope this girl at least might've learned a lesson in humanity and kindness.

KD

hi mark,
So so sorry about your stoke and i greatly admire you going to the market and trying to keep going! but i have to say i have met some of the meanest and nosiest people in the market!! ... 'the stare-ers', 'the comment-ers', 'the question ask-ers'. it seems being disabled and/or using a cane and brace somehow is an open season sign for rudeness.
and yes that woman was an angel .... to you .... and a lesson teacher to those ignorant kids. God works in mysterious ways!! a good dose of validation can make you feel soooo good though!
fondly, Joan

Mark,
Hey, you had a guardian angel riding your shoulder didn't you at that exact moment.......... Then *gazooks* She materialized right behind you. There is such goodness out there, it just seems for the most part we so rarely get to experience at work, but you did.

The generation that that young girl who was so rude to you has got to be the RUDEST generation I have ever in my life witnessed so far. She found out just how far her rudensss took her didn't she??? It got her fired & she richly deserved exactly what happened to her. Altho she probably didn't think so. I sure wish I could have been there to see it go down.

You were very brave just to go out to the store. Not sure I would have been that brave if I were in the same set of circumstances. Bravo!!!

*HUGS*
DebbyV

*HUGS*

:grouphug:


Mark,

A group hug for your bravery and sense of humour.---You are amazing so please don't ever let those mindless creatures bother you. The lady who helped you will have a free entry to heaven! The shop assistant??? well we don't care really:rolleyes:
I understand how it feels to have people stare--My kids will often comment with things like "Do you want to take a photo and take it home"? or " has my Mama got something on you'd like to borrow"?
It soon makes them turn away. I just wish they realised that once upon a time I was normal--just like them!
Love
Tayla:hug:

Group hug
 

Hey Mark

I too thank for the story.
My best wishes for continued improvement - Onward ever upward.
Good on you for your conviction. What a good lady to help without question.

Thinking of you
Auberon

..send a bad mossie bite to their necks hehehehehhehehe... just kidding....

Dear Mark -

So glad to hear that your humor hasn't been affected by all of this. Seriously. As the man says, you rock, baby!

Mike

hang in there
 

Hey Mark,
I sure am sorry you had to join the stroke club. The left side of my face and body were affected. I'm with ya on how people look right at you. I drooled and my mouth just did not work the way it is supposed to. I had a hell of a time trying to speak. And I stumbled alot. It gets better as time goes on. I was in Costco when it got me. Deb says people just looked at me and kept going. Hope you improve everyday and keep that attitude going. A good healthy, fighting attitude will pull a person thru this crap.
Stephen
AKA Condor

Hi Mark:

I didn't realize our club was quite this large.

I had mine sometime while asleep. I spent 3 days in bed with the worst headache of my life (and I have suffered from horrendous migraines for the last 40 years)before going to the ER. Really blurred vision, no energy, speech problems.

Had so many MRI's I now glow in the dark. LOL

Neuro ICU 10 days and then recovery at home. Was about another week after coming home before I could walk without a cane and using the walls for support.

I still forget words and have to use other words to describe what I need to say. It gets frustrating.

98% recovery.

I'm praying for you every day and hoping things improve steadily.

Hugs and Prayers

Big Hugs
 

Thanks for sharing, not only the information about your stroke, but about your shopping trip. This is one my favorite quotes--

I can be changed by what happens to me.
I refuse to be REDUCED by it. Maya Angelou

I posted it here instead of on the famous quotes thread because I feel you truely live this way, plus keep the essence of yourself--your sense of humor!!I choose to believe that for every mean spirited person:eek:, untold others-like yourself:)- are truly gifts from God. Thanks for reminding us to keep our chin up and a smile on our face. Look forward to reading of your progress!!!:hug:Carose

Hey Mark!
 

I wish life would stop kickin you around!

I m so sorry you had this happen, but I gotta tell you that :You-Rock:

I know you will get past this, and along the way help lots of people. Got ya in my prayers bro :wink:

Love ya much! :hug:

Hi Mark...although I don't post often....couldn't help but to stop by and say I hope you are feeling better with each passing day. I'm so sorry to read about your CVA (stroke). My thoughts and prayers are with you...keep up the fight. I do believe there are Angels around us. Hugs, Jewells

Hi Mark

I have wanted to reply here a few times already because, albeit in a different way, your story has touched my heart beyond the feeling of sad to hear of your stroke :( but glad to see you bounce back so quickly :)

You telling of your experience at that store reminded me of when my youngest son, now almost 18, was newly dx and suffering with VERY severe Tourette Syndrome.
I still ache, and yes, get angry in a way, when I remember not just the kids, but the ADULTS (including some teachers even!) who would make unkind and insensitive remarks about his tics, and he endured a lot of hurt and abuse and bullying because of it. It first broke his heart and his spirit (prior to his 10th birthday he was a pretty regular kid and almost overnight, as the TS gene switched on, his life changed in a dramatic swoop)
but he bounced back too...... :)

and now Mark, just like you, and that lady behind you at the store, my son has let his experience make him better not bitter, and he now has learned to become an angel toward others too, because he learned true compassion from what he was suffering.

May your path be filled with angels, Mark, and your recovery from this stroke be remarkable

sincerely
Cheri