Dec. 28, 2011 at 5:52pm with 10 notes

One of my favorite customers at Yogurtini (a self-serve frozen yogurt place) is this little old man who always comes in alone, sort of limps up the aisle, and gets under $2 worth of chocolate froyo.

I haven’t seen him since I left for college in August, but I’m working over break and he just came in. He has a walker now.

People get old and different parts of them stop working and it’s horrifically tragically sad. It just doesn’t seem fair. But he opened the door all by himself, and got his yogurt on his own, and generally seems completely self-sufficient.

But he could die any day and I would never know. I don’t know his name, I just bought his yogurt once because, come on, I had $2 to spare and he spent a lot of energy just walking up to the register.

Maybe his expiration date isn’t approaching, but there’s gonna be a point when he can’t just walk in and get his one-dollar-eighty-five-cents worth of chocolate frozen yogurt anymore. When he can’t get out of bed anymore.

And, well, that’s a little sad.

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