Open Letter to Fellow Customer at New Hampshire Hobby Lobby

Dear Fellow Hobby Lobby Shopper,

Though we live in an age where it is easier to stay connected with loved ones through technology, life can still feel lonely and isolating. I have noticed a significant decrease in interactions between strangers over the past decade and to be quite honest, I miss them! It is one of my favorite parts about being a human.

You didn’t let your own busyness prevent you from helping a stranger at Hobby Lobby that day. The fact that you went above and beyond to assist a perfect stranger had more of a positive effect that you realize.

You overheard a customer expressing to an employee that his straps ripped off his motorcycle’s saddlebag. He needed to sew them on and was looking for the materials to do so. It was then you emerged, seemingly from the heavens.

You work with leathers and walked this guy around the store and told him exactly what he would need. The employee sat this one out at you seemed to have it handled!

The friendship blossomed beyond the Hobby Lobby aisles, a Facebook friendship was born. Website services were traded for leather work, a true New Hampshire transaction. And Mr. Broken Saddlebag’s straps are totally reattached the proper way (something called a saddle stitch) and the bike is ready for his wife’s “carry-on,” stuff again just in time for Fall.

It was one of those wholesome moments that couldn’t have happened if everyone was consumed with their phones that day. Sometimes you just have to look up at the human being standing right in front of you.

Thanks for making an effort in this age of convenience and reconnecting us all to our humanity. You are a real one!

Sincerely,

The woman wandering the aisles in pursuit of Fall tchotchkes.