disgust.

This afternoon, in the store, an elderly woman came in to have a look around, and once she was done, sat in a chair by the door.

After an hour I asked her if she was alright. She told me that her family had gotten tired of having to wait for her because she walked slowly, and had sent her into my store to have a look around while they shopped elsewhere. They had told her that they would meet her in my store when they were finished. She said that should could probably go out looking for them, but that the mall looked all the same to her and she was afraid to leave the store and get lost.

An hour-and-a-half later I was getting angry at a family, asked the woman her last name, and had Bryan send a page out to the mall to get the family to come to our store and collect their grandmother.

Twenty minutes later, they showed up. The mother of the family walked into the store and (honest-to-goodness truth) yelled at the little old lady for having paged them when they were "right down the aisle". They walked out of the store still arguing, and, once outside, the couple continued to scold the older woman while their teenage children watched.

I hope, when the mother is her mother's age, that she is blessed with children exactly like herself.

Bryan sent me on a break then, I think because of what happened, because he told me that when I came back from my break I needed to look less disgusted.

There is no respect in America for the elderly. And what a terrible example for the children who watched.