Please know that I'm yours to keep

So, I've already told this story to many friends, but I need to write it down.

I had the strangest day last Thrusday. I got to sleep in a little bit - which was good because I was kinda sick all week. I still had to wake up a littler earlier than I wanted so I would have time to go pick up a package at the Post Office. I got out of bed all groggy and stuffy and basically slid and fell my way to the Post Office (it was snowing and raining the whole day on Wednesday). Of course, like good Bostonians, no body had shoveled their sidewalks. The roads were perfectly clear though. Once I got to the post office the lady at the counter yelled at me because I showed her my package slip and it said UPS not USPS. Duh, I knew there was a difference between the two, she didn't need to yell at me. Then I walked home all angry and tired. I was walking behind an older man and was about to pass him on the sidewalk when I noticed that he dropped something. I said,"Excuse me, sir, you dropped something right back there."

He said,"No, that was my cigar carton. I didn't drop it, I put it there."

"What? You can't just put your garbage on the sidewalk. You have to throw it away. There's a garbage can right there (10 feet in front of us)." I replied angrily.

"Well where I come from..." he started to explain.

"It doesn't matter where you come from you have to pick up your trash! Go pick it up." I yelled at him. I think he was in shock because he just stared at me, and I was kinda getting up in his face.The I called him a bad name and stomped back, found his cigar carton, stormed past him and threw it in the garbage can. Then I realized that I just yelled at an old man. I got really emotional and started crying when I got home. My roommate made me feel better though!

The rest of the day, I actually saw people smiling at me as they walked past. A man even told me,"Thanks friend. Have a wonderful day" as I held the door open for him at CVS. The universe was telling me that I was still a good person.

I'm glad I didn't skip class and miss the craziness :)