I was walking home from a friends house one day and I really wanted a pie. Just a pie, I didn't care what kind of pie, but I had an unusual hankering for a pastry with meat inside it.
I walked into G & M Corner shop and moseyed on down their isles. A quaint little corner shop, chock-a-block full of packaged foods and products necessary for day to day living.
I came to their pie oven but it was empty, "Oh no!" My heart sank into an endless, hellish pit of despair, "Alas poor pie, I knew him not."
But then from the corner of my ears, I heard the sweet angelic voice of the shopkeeper barking at me in a heightened pitch, "You want pie?" He asked.
I nodded, unable to speak, such was my desperation and anguish over this pie that may never be. "I get you pie." He said and then walked over to the freezer and took out a pie, one which he quickly nuked and handed to me in a paper towel.
Sure it wasn't a gourmet pie or anything, but remember, this is a corner shop not a restaurant and the message to take from this particular story is one about kindness and helpfulness and going the extra mile to satisfy the customer who so clearly needed some meat wrapped in pastry, A.K.A. Pie.
Shop keep, I shall canonise you, the patron saint of pastry. read more