sowing and reaping.

i made a big mistake in buying a bag of the cadbury mini eggs at aldi's the other night. the bag advertises them as being "solid milk chocolate with a crisp sugar shell." why i bought these, i have no idea. it must have been an impulse, because i hardly ever buy junk food. but, i did it, and two days later, the bag is gone. i don't remember those being so delectably AWESOME.

in other news, a customer came in today at starbucks. mid-thirties, single. he frequents several times a week, i would say, and orders a mild coffee. i guess almost every time he has come in during the past few weeks, we just happen to have started brewing a fresh pot of mild coffee, or have run out right before he has gotten to the register. both of these scenarios require the customer to wait until the coffee is fully brewed, which can take up to five minutes at times. well, this guy always has to wait. and the past two times i've seen him, he has made this terrible terrible face when he finds out his coffee is not quite ready. he gets REALLY snotty.

"WHAT? you mean i have to WAIT? this ALWAYS happens to me!" he says dramatically.

it's gotten to the point of being comical to me. because he acts as though we plan to run out of our mild brew just to irritate him. but, what REALLY gets me is that, even though he complains like a teenage GIRL when he doesn't get his coffee as fast as he would like it, he still waits for the mild to brew instead of taking the bold coffee. which leads me to believe that he's not really in much of a time crunch; he just likes giving attitude. really, we at the downtown mt. prospect starbucks are all as sweet as pie. and often times we give him the coffee for free.

sometimes i want to ask him if he is familiar with the biblical principle of sowing and reaping. i figure a question like that could get me fired, though.

the few times that i have seen him get really angry, he always seems to be remorseful by the end of the experience. once he gets his coffee, he goes out of his way to thank us and give us a big tip. it's as though he has to go through the process everyday of being paranoid that we are conspiring against him, and then realizing by the end of his visit that he has wrongly accused us in his heart. i do admire that he is not so proud as to stay angry.

it's a good Love lesson. quick repentance.