Mad props to the polite

Being out in public any time between Thanksgiving and January 1 is frustrating, taxing, annoying...you name it. People pushing. People rushing. Jerks cutting you off in traffic, or taking what was rightfully your spot in the newly-opened checkout line.

Which is precisely why I avoid retail and the like on the weekends. Except it will happen, when you run out of coffee, that you must stop at the first coffee establishment you cross.

Which is why I ended up in a Panera today, and smiled as I watched one young woman help an older one find the hot water she needed for her tea.

Cheers, polite people!