Beins as Christmas is just around the corner and we only have 2 more Saturdays till the big day it means that our shoppin days are numbered and gettin less and less as we waste our time looking at this stupid computer, but what the heck, I guess you aint wasting it all because of the site you are on.

It just wouldn’t be right if I didn’t share the real life story of my friend Soda Grizz on here with you.

A bit of a background about old Soda Grizz…see he is a might nice guy from a small town up in Idaho called Soda Springs.  If you ever go through Soda Springs be sure and stop by the natural soda springs that bubbles up out of the ground.  Take a empty milk jug with you too and make sure you dip it in the spring and fill the jug up.  When you get to where you are really going (cuz most folks don’t consider they are anywhere just being in Soda Springs), make up some cool aid using that soda water….your life will not be the same after that.

Soda Grizz is known all through the town of Soda Springs Idaho.  Everyone in town knows who he is, what he is doing, where he is right now and when the last time was that he was visiting the jail.  He is a nice guy, probably the nicest guy you will ever want to meet.  They occasionally make him sleep in the jail to show the real criminals in there how to be a nice guy…he is a mentor you know.

Well, I always have looked up to him and I listen intently to everything he has to tell me and this story is not any different.  I think you could learn the thing or two from this one as well.

Walmart.

Walmart employees are no different than employees at any other store around.  They have families, friends and likes and dislikes just like everybody else.  Well, the management of Walmart likes to make sure they get all the hours they can out of their employees and especially on Christmas Eve.  They make sure the little ones at home will have just enough visiting with their parents on Christmas Eve so they can live to tell about how mommy and daddy always was home on Christmas Eve…and not a minute more.

So, here it is Christmas Eve in Soda Springs Idaho.  Ol Soda Grizz had spent all his time working in the mines and didn’t have any time for shopping.  Now he finds himself faced with Christmas Eve and not one present has been bought.  He has his list that he had been making up all year long, he just hadn’t had the time to go shopping.  Every time he was ready to go, the local sheriff called on him to mentor some of the folks staying in his sleep over place.  Sometimes life deals you lemons you know.

So, Ol Grizz decides he HAS to go shopping and he is running clear out of time.  He goes to Walmart with his list.

Now picture the scene in the store.  The aisles are pretty much empty of customers, as it is late in the store.  The workers are getting excited to think their shift is almost done and they can go home and enjoy Christmas Eve with family and friends.  And suddenly the door swings open and in walks Soda Grizz with a long list in his hand.

He approaches the first clerk he sees and asks if she knows were he can find…and he reads the first thing on his list…she directs him to the place most likely to find that item.  He goes there in his slow gaited way and picks it up.  All the employees eyes are on him as now he is THE ONLY patron in the store.

He slowly approaches another employee and asks about the second thing on his list…she kindly walks him to the place to find that item.  Soon Soda Grizz has every employee in the store helping him find things.  The list is torn in several pieces with employees running helter skelter through the store picking up the items on their portion of the list.

Meanwhile Grizz is talking and telling jokes to the lady that is running the cash register.  The other employees are bringing the items to that line and the lady is ringing them up one by one.  Grizz is a very happy shopper at this late hour on Christmas Eve and gladly pays for the items as the other employees bring them.

Now you should be able to see just what a gentleman old Soda Grizz is.  He is smiling at each of the employees and thanking them one by one.  I’ll bet there has not been one other Walmart in the world that has had a single customer say thank you and  Merry Christmas to every employee working on Christmas Eve, than the one in Soda Springs Idaho.

A real heart warming story don’t you think?

Bears Butt

Dec. 9, 2012