I was in an airport bathroom last week and a woman had two small kids she was struggling with. She had a stroller, a rolling suitcase, a big shoulder bag and a diaper bag under the stroller.
The baby was screaming bloody murder.
The woman looked like she was about to just give up and sit in the middle of the bathroom and rock herself to sleep.
I grabbed her stroller because she was trying to maneuver it towards a stall while holding her toddler's hand and balance her bags.
She looked at me startled and I told her that I'd push the stroller behind her so she could get the toddler in because she was trying to wrestle her hand out of her mother's hand and had become dead weight.
We got to the big stall and someone was in there so we had to wait.
All the while she was pleading with the toddler to stop.
Toddler wasn't having it and was wilding out big time.
The baby was SCREAMING.
I handed the toddler my phone and the toddler shut up.
The woman then unstrapped the baby and he almost immediately stopped crying.
She took my phone from her toddler and replaced it with her phone.
She handed my phone back to me.
The person in the stall came out and I told her to go in and handle her business and I'd watch their stuff.
She went in and changed both her kids.
I heard her finish up with the baby while talking to the toddler.
She opened the stall looking like she was, once again, in charge and confident.
She thanked me for my help in a gushing kinda way.
She pulled the stroller in halfway and strapped baby boy in, flipped her daughter up on that changing table thingy and got to work being mommy of the year.
I went to get in line to get a stall to handle my business.
The women in line waiting on stalls watching what we were doing insisted that I get in the front of the line for the next stall.
When I came out and was washing my hands...old girl was looking like a new woman. She'd pulled her hair into a ponytail, splashed water on her face and was ready to take on the world.
Her: Thank you again...can I buy you a cup of coffee?
Me: No...can I buy YOU a cup of coffee? With Bailey's? Cuz you are seriously SUPERMOM of the day to me!
Turns out the poor thing had lost her mother and was headed to deal with all of that. Her husband was meeting them at their destination airport because he was on business travel. This was her first time traveling alone with her babies and, understandably...she was distraught about her mommy.
I was glad I could help.
And even glader toddler hadn't thrown my phone in the toilet.
Sometimes we can be helpful, IN MY OPINION, while keeping the person we're helping...AT EASE.
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