Cashier laughed at old woman counting pennies for bread and I lost my mind right there in line. Something snapped inside me. Forty-three years of riding, sixty-seven years of living, and I’d never felt rage like that moment.
She was maybe eighty years old. Tiny. Hunched over. Her hands were shaking as she counted out coins one by one on the counter. Pennies mostly. A few nickels. Her fingers were twisted with arthritis and she kept losing count.Continue reading…
