Christmas cheer is in the air!

I just love Christmas! The music, the food, the presents, the decorations, and best of all the cheerful people! At least that is what I expect from people, to be cheerful during the time of year that we celebrate Jesus's birth! This is not what I ran into yesterday how ever. No yesterday I felt like I was wearing a shirt with a bulls eye on it because everyone was out to get me. My day started out just fine, I was going about my everyday buisness, doing what I do, hum dee dum dee dum. Well I had invited our neighbors over for dinner because they are getting ready to move to England, and I was getting ready to start supper when I realized I was missing a few ingredients. So I take a quick solo run to the grocery store to get some last minute goodies. I am unloading my cart onto the runway belt thing-a-majig when apparently my cart brushed the little girl of the person in front of me, and this is how the rest of the conversation went:
she spins around with a devilish look in her eyes and says"You just hit my daughter with your cart"
I innocently respond "Oh gosh I am so sorry I did not mean to!"
she retorts with a "Well you just ran right into her" in a not so quite voice.
I starting to get irritated myself say "I am so sorry it was a total accident I did not mean to and you really do not need to be talking to me that way. Can you please speak a little nicer"
she spat "Don't tell me how to talk, who do you think you are?
I give her my biggest sweetest smile and say "God bless you and your family mame!"
she retorts "yeah you to you little B_ _ _ H! I am sure you can fill in those blanks.
I, in total shock at this point say "Mame those are some real good values you are impressing on your two young children."
she says "Don't you tell me how to raise my children...you touch me with that cart one more time and I am going to MESS YOU UP!"
I stop the conversation right there and put my hands up in the air. I am at a loss for words. Yeah I know what you are thinking, me, Alyssa Turner at a loss for words??? Well of course I go home shaking in my boots (well my flip flops) because it made my blood boil that someone could be that rude, and I started to think of all the things I should have said.
Like "excuse me! Excuse me! Are you threatening me? Are you threatening me in front of all these witnesses? Do you mind if I dial up the police and you can repeat that for me?"
or no wait I could have knelt down to her two small children and said "I am sorry your mommy is acting this way...Does she always threaten to beat people up at the grocery store?"
But I did none of these thing. I just turned the other cheek and let her think she won.
Matthew 5:39 ringing in my ears "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."

So I get to the house and preheat my oven and begin preparing dinner when I notice a strange smell and lots of smoke coming from the oven. I open it to find the taco shells left over from last nights dinner still sitting on a cookie sheet. Only they no longer looked like taco shells, they were more like a couple of hot coals melted right into the pan. So I expose of the little burnt offerings out the front door and open a few windows to air out the house. I know what the Neighbors were thinking....Oh no Alyssa is cooking again. It did not help that my two young daughters were running out from door screaming FIRE! FIRE!

So I get the house smelling back to normal thanks to some great smelling candles. We ate dinner and then we went to an outdoor concert on base that they throw every year during Christmas. We went with our friends that have two girls the same age as mine and the kids were having a blast playing, dancing, and trying to sing, when the guy behind me taps me on the shoulder and says "could you calm your kids down we are trying to watch the concert and our kids are sleeping!" Wow the nerve of some people! Maybe you should take them home!!

I got home and asked my husband if I had a sign that said "I love confrontations" on my back. What a day. People are strange!