Kindness

I know nothing about digital cameras. My 35mm film camera was dropped once too many times and it quit latching closed. So I asked my sister who owns one then headed off the Office Max where I found that my arthritic fingers could not handle the wee, wee little controls. The OM man was very nice, "try Murphy's they might have something." In yesterday's paper there it was synchronicity: an add for a Canon with $30 off so I headed off to the store.

Don the manager waited on me. I told him my concerns and we looked at the Canon 120 that has larger controls except for the close/far away shot tiny, tiny control roller ball. I seemed to be able to manipulate all the controls and he walked me through taking a photo, reviewing and deleting it. At the same time we talked about RCWP and my becoming a priest. He is not Catholic and says he cannot understand how they could abuse children that way. I said, "When you believe you have absolute power, you become corrupt. We are working to change that." Don approved and wished us well.

I told him I needed the camera because the botanist for the Daniel Boone National Forest said the "lady slippers are blooming this week." I am so excited as I have only seen them once in Blacksburg VA in my 17 years there. So IF I catch them with the digital I will put up a photo if I can get someone to help me with transferring photos from memory to computer.

I want to say "Thank you" to Don and to all the men and women who have jobs in retail and provide kind service to customers such as myself with very little knowledge of a product. Blessings everyone, have a nice week end.