Just a Strange Day

Today is the first sunny day we have had here in Michigan in a long time.  We went to Mass and had to stop at the grocery store on the way home.
Driving through the parking lot, a man almost ran into my car with his cart, which had kids in it.  He had the cart piled high with bottle returns and was just rounding the corner with abandon before we saw each other.  He started yelling at me, loudly!  I just kept going, but his anger and screaming could still be heard.  Then, as we got out of the car and were just entering the store, there was a couple in a car.....screaming and swearing at each other!  They had the windows down, yelling with abandon.  I said to my girls, "let's just get what we need, and get out of here!"  There was an elderly lady walking the opposite direction with her husband who overheard me.   She said "that's exactly what we said!".   The whole atmosphere in the store seemed to be charged with hostility...from women with carts who appeared to be on a mission of rudeness, to men acting strangely.  We left there, intact, and had to stop at the gas station.  As I was standing in line to pay, a young man was holding open the door when a lady came charging in, and I mean charging!  She yelled as loud as she could at the cashier to "turn the pumps on!".  The poor girl at the cash register appeared very meek, and said "it's all prepay".  The lady started yelling obscenities, then charged back out the door.  The poor kid holding the door looked very frightened.  They took off without getting gas.  I was standing there with my mouth open I think.  I was so shocked by the public anger I had witnessed over the last hour and a half that I was like dumbfounded.  I never see that around here, especially on such a sunny, beautiful day!  My girls got a good laugh out of it all, though.  Because of my "shock and awe" I came out of the store and walked right past our car.  They were sitting in it watching me. So something good came of the whole ordeal!  They got a laugh.  I think with my foibles, I provide them with a lot of laughter.  It's the least I can do. 

It was just so bizarre.  I guess I'm writing it down because it showed me something.  First of all, I definitely didn't feel any love towards these people. I need work in that area, obviously.  Secondly, there has always been much talk from all corners about civil unrest.  I admit, I must live a sheltered life because what I witnessed today just blew me away.  The "feeling" of it was very unsettling.  I don't get unsettled very easily, anymore.  I'm just wondering if God was allowing us a little glimpse of what is to come, and was showing us to prepare.