'My mom works and is pretty stressed, but I've never seen her be mean to a retail worker or waitress or anything.'
"Last night, I made a run to Target at 8:30 p.m. I needed to pick up a few things for a holiday party we are hosting this weekend, but of course by the time I made it to the register my cart was overflowing with holiday items, toiletries for my three teen daughters, and yes, even a 'Ho Ho Ho' throw pillow," wrote Whitney."The store was on the quieter side, and I was relieved when I saw a teen boy standing outside his lane. 'I can take you here, ma'am,' he said.
"'Yeah. I mean, I get it,'" he told her."'I'm the oldest of five and my mom works and is pretty stressed, but I've never seen her be mean to a retail worker or waitress or anything. It's just hard when you've never worked before and people start yelling at you. This is my third job already, and it's the same at all of them.'"
As Whitney continued to scan her items, she thought back to some of the times she was less than nice to store employees. In that moment, she felt terrible that she let something like a mistake at the register bother her so much at one point. Whitney continued to explain how the conversation made her particularly introspective, especially in the midst of the holiday season:"I get it. As moms, we are overwhelmed and undervalued. We are sleep-deprived and anxiety-ridden. We are all the things to all the people. We carry the mental load, and it is heavy. We just want to get through to bedtime, and during the holidays that feeling is exponentially greater.
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