oo<\/st1:PersonName> stunned by the whole incident. All she had intended to do was shop. She hadn’t gone scrapping for an international incident.<\/p>\nAnd then, the man with the wire frame glasses left his cart in place…and went off to shop some more. Unbelievable! Jody thought. <\/p>\n
He returned just as the woman in front had placed her last item on the conveyer belt and was getting her credit card ready. He moved into place, quickly bagged his twenty items, paid, and triumphantly too<\/st1:PersonName>k off, having beaten the system…and his fellow shoppers.<\/p>\nJody was loading her goo<\/st1:PersonName>ds onto the conveyer belt when she spied him making a hasty return. She girded herself for another confrontation. But the wild beast loo<\/st1:PersonName>k that had so taken over his visage had subsided. He was holding out his hand.<\/p>\n“I hope I didn’t upset you,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Well you did,” Jody replied. She wasn’t letting him off the hoo<\/st1:PersonName>k for ruining her day quite so easily. <\/p>\n“Oh, well..” he said, hesitating for a moment. “Well, um…then Shabbat Shalom!”<\/p>\n
And that was it. As far as he was concerned, the matter was closed. Bygones should be bygones and any animosity from this point forward would be as inappropriate as…well, his behavior just a few moments ago.<\/p>\n
What could Jody do? Not return the greeting? That would be so un-Israeli. And she’d already been accused of that<\/span><\/em>. But maybe there was something to learn here. About how Israelis deal with conflict. Or muster an apology. <\/p>\nShe’d think about that later. For now, there was only one thing to say.<\/p>\n
“Shabbat Shalom,” Jody wished the man with the wire frame glasses. She shoo<\/st1:PersonName>k his hand and he smiled. Jody suppressed another laugh and smiled back.<\/p>\nAnd then they walked their baskets through the sliding glass doo<\/st1:PersonName>r and out into the parking lot together.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He looked like a regular guy. His short cropped hair, half frame wire glasses, t-shirt (not too designer, not too sloppy) and well worn sandals all suggested a cafe patron with at least a moderately worldly frame of reference. So when he asked Jody to “save his spot” at the Rami Levy supermarket checkout line, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}