Posted by pegasus on March 2, 2004, at 22:41:17
In reply to Oh, my heart just ached, posted by Susan J on March 2, 2004, at 14:05:58
Oh, god, I've been there too. I bet if you had said anything to her, she'd have started crying. I hate situations like there where your compassion just wells up, but you don't know what to do with it.
I probably would have done what you did. But maybe it would have been ok to just turn to her and say, "Are you going to be ok?" She probably would have said yes. Or maybe she would have just fallen apart. Who knows. Don't lose that impulse to help, though. It's precious.
At least you talked to the store manager. That's just inappropriate, yelling out everyone's prescriptions like that.
- p
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