Albert

[janelle]

Albert
>
> A woman is in a grocery store and happens upon a
> grandpa and his poorly behaving
> 3 year-old grandson. At every turn. Its obvious
> gramps has his hands full with the kid
> screaming for candy in the candy aisle, cookies in the
> cookie aisle; same for fruit,
> cereal and soda. Meanwhile gramps is working his way
> around saying in a controlled
> voice, "Easy Albert, we won't be long, easy
> boy"
>
>
> Another outburst and she hears gramps calmly say,
> "It's OK Albert, just a couple more
> minutes and we'll be outta here, hang in there.
>
> At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items
> from the cart and gramps again in a
> controlled voice is saying, "Albert, Albert, relax
> buddy, don't get upset -- we'll be home
> in five minutes; stay cool, Albert".
>
> Very impressed the woman goes up to gramps as he's
> loading the kid and the
> groceries into the car and says, "You know sir,
> it's
> none of my business, but you were
> amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. The
> whole time you kept your composure
> and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just
> calmly kept saying things would
> be OK. Albert is very lucky to have you for his
> grandpa".
>
> "Thanks, lady," said gramps, "but I'm
> Albert -- the
> little *******'s name is Johnny".