9 miles easy and lesson on calm nerves

I ended up doing 9 miles easy at around 7:40 something pace. But that wasn't the story. The story was what I saw almost happen at Whole Foods today.

I was eating my lunch and I saw a family waiting around looking for a free table. There was a mentally handicapped guy who had just finished his lunch and got up. He is there every day and everyone knows he is handicapped. He reads the funnies every day and laughs out loud at the paper. He also microwaves raw meat to make a sandwich. He doesn't necessarily have the physical look of someone that is mentally retarded. Well anyway the family sat down, the mother, grandmother, and teenage son. The father had come back with some items as well. Next thing you know the mentally handicapped man was exchanging words with the father. The father exchanged words back. I don't think the father knew that the guy was handicapped. Actually, it was interesting watching the father getting so riled up by the words coming out of the mentally handicapped guys mouth. So one of the managers escorts the mentally disabled guy out of the store while he mouths off at the father. The father flips the mentally disabled guy off. That was shocking because the guy was totally white collar and with his family and it just seemed so out of place. Well the situation seemed to have been over but it wasn't. Not yet.

So the father sits down with the family. Next thing you know the retarded guy comes to the window making gestures and mouthing off. Seeing this and feeling his manhood threatened, the father gets up and starts to run out of the store. The manager tries to calm him down. The father doesn't listen. And I start to think to myself, OH BOY. This guys is going to beat down a mentally disabled man. This guy probably doesn't even know the guy is mentally disabled. So he still runs out to parking lot after the mentally disabled guy and the next thing you know the police have both guys handcuffed and everyone in Whole Foods are looking out the window. The father really looked pathetic. He was handcuffed and leaned over a vehicle. I sat next to his family, they looked puzzled, embarrassed. I felt bad for them. This guy's temper put himself in a stupid position. Not only him but his whole family. I wonder if his wife is going to scream at him for putting them in that situation or maybe he might lose his temper with her as well.

It was good I saw this happen and no one got hurt. This will force me to think twice when I'm in situations where my testosterone may get the better of me. We men are funny people. Today I saw how dumb we can get sometimes.