A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather
and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson.
It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with
the child screaming for candy in the candy aisle, cookies in the cookie
aisle and for fruit, cereal and soda in the other aisles. Meanwhile,
Grandpa is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, "Easy
William, we won't be long . . . easy, boy."
Another outburst and she hears the grandpa calmly
say, "It's okay, William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of
here. Hang in there, boy"
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing
items out of the cart and Grandpa says again in a controlled voice,
"William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five
minutes, stay cool, William."
Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the
grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. She says to
the elderly man, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there.
I don't know how you did it. That whole time you kept your composure, and
no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying
'things would be okay.' William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."
"Thanks," said the grandpa, "but I'm William. The
little s**t's name is Kevin."