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Back home in Brooklyn we did things different. You went to the butcher\u2019s for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin and the grocery store for food<\/a>. But when I spent the summer with my grandmother in Warwick, New York, she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the packed shelves around me, everything all jumbled together?<\/p>\n

I walked up to the counter. Behind it was a lady like no one I\u2019d ever seen. Fake-jewel-encrusted glasses teetered on the tip of her nose as she read the paper spread out before her. Her gray hair was piled on her head with a crochet needle stuck in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

She looked up. \u201cYou\u2019re that Clements kid,\u201d she said. \u201cYour daddy sent you to stay the summer. I\u2019m Miss Bee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bee was a good name for this woman. She spoke so sharply I felt like I was stung. \u201cI had pneumonia,\u201d I explained. \u201cDaddy thought the country air might be good for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome closer and let me get a look at you,\u201d she said. She pushed her glasses up her nose. \u201cI want to be able to describe you to the sheriff if something goes missing from the store.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a thief!\u201d I was shocked. I was seven\u2014years too young to be a thief!<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I can see you\u2019re not much of anything. But I can tell you\u2019ve got potential.\u201d Then she went back to reading her newspaper.<\/p>\n

Never had anyone spoken to me like this! I couldn\u2019t wait to get out of this strange store and back to my grandma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to get these,\u201d I said, holding up my list.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo?\u201d Miss Bee did not look up from her paper. \u201cGo get them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut . . . but,\u201d I said. Didn\u2019t this woman understand my problem? \u201cThere\u2019s so much stuff in here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miss Bee pointed to a sign on the screen door. \u201cThat\u2019s why they call it a general store, kid. It\u2019s the only one in five miles as the crow flies, so you\u2019d best get used to things. There\u2019s no one here except you and me and I\u2019m not your servant, so I suggest you get yourself a basket from that pile over there and start filling. If you\u2019re lucky you\u2019ll be home by sundown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sundown was five hours away. I wasn\u2019t sure I would make it.<\/p>\n

I started at the nearest shelf and scanned it for the first item on my list: pork and beans. It took me three wall-to-wall searches before I found a can nestled between boxes of cereal and bread, on top of some soup cans. Next up was toilet paper. That was a real hunt. I found it under the daily newspaper. Band-Aids\u2014where had I seen them? Oh, yes, next to the face cream. The store was a puzzle, but it held some surprises, too. I found a new Superman comic tucked behind the peanut butter.<\/p>\n

An hour later I had found everything on the list\u2014except for one thing. Bicarbonate of soda. I understood soda, but what was the B-word? I would have to ask Miss Bee. I screwed up my courage and approached the counter.<\/p>\n

I put my basket down and reached up so she could see the list. I pointed to the strange word I had been struggling with. \u201cI can\u2019t read this,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

Miss Bee wouldn\u2019t even look at it. \u201cWell, Miss Potential,\u201d she said, \u201cit seems you don\u2019t listen real good. If you did you\u2019d remember the items I\u2019m sure your grandma told you as she wrote them down. Just like you\u2019d remember me telling you I\u2019m not your servant. Next time you should listen better to both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miss Bee had stung me again! I stared in amazement and indignation as she tallied everything else up and put my purchases into a brown paper bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Miss Bee is without a doubt the meanest woman I\u2019ve ever met. Probably the meanest I\u2019ll meet in my whole life!\u201d I announced when I got home.<\/p>\n

Grandma just laughed and shook her head. \u201cShe\u2019s a character,\u201d she agreed. \u201cBut she\u2019s not so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not so bad? Grandma didn\u2019t know the half of it! I never wanted to return to the general store again. Unfortunately, Grandma had other ideas.<\/p>\n

I visited Miss Bee a couple of times a week that summer. Sometimes she shortchanged me. Other times she overcharged. Or sold me an old newspaper instead of one that was current.<\/p>\n

Going to the store was more like going into battle. I left my grandma\u2019s house armed with my list\u2014memorized to the letter\u2014and the prices in my head and marched into Miss Bee\u2019s like General Patton marching into North Africa. \u201cThat can of beans is only 29 cents!\u201d I corrected her one afternoon. I had watched the numbers change on the cash register closely, and Miss Bee had added 35 cents. She didn\u2019t seem embarrassed that I had caught her overcharging. She just looked at me over her glasses and fixed the price.<\/p>\n

Not that she ever let me declare victory. All summer long she found ways to trip me up. No sooner had I learned how to pronounce bicarbonate of soda and memorized its location on the shelf under the pink stomach medicine than Miss Bee rearranged the shelves and made me hunt for it all over again.<\/p>\n

By summer\u2019s end the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes. The morning I was to return to Brooklyn I stopped in to get a packet of chewing gum. Miss Bee rang up the gum, then poked me with one of her chubby fingers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll right, Miss Potential,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat did you learn this summer?\u201d<\/p>\n

I pressed my lips together. That you\u2019re a meany!<\/em> The thought popped into my head, where it stayed. There was nothing I learned this summer that Miss Bee wanted to hear!<\/p>\n

To my amazement, Miss Bee laughed. \u201cI know what you think of me,\u201d she said. \u201cWell, here\u2019s a news flash. I don\u2019t care. Each of us is put on this earth for a reason. Some people will find cures for diseases; others will climb mountains. I believe my job is to teach every child I meet 10 life lessons to help him or her<\/a>. Think what you will, Miss Potential, but when you get older you\u2019ll be glad our paths crossed!\u201d<\/p>\n

Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! The idea was absurd. And I continued to think so for many years. Until one day my daughter came to me with homework troubles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too hard,\u201d she said. \u201cCould you finish my math problems for me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I do it for you how will you ever learn to do it yourself?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

I saw myself back at that general store where I had learned the hard way to tally up my bill along with the cashier. Had I ever been overcharged since?<\/p>\n

As my daughter went back to her homework, I wondered:<\/p>\n

Had Miss Bee really taught me something all those years ago? Could anyone really learn from a mean old lady who made life so miserable?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI teach each child I meet 10 life lessons,\u201d Miss Bee had said. As my daughter went off grumbling, I took out a scrap of paper and wrote down 10 things I had indeed learned from my encounters with Miss Bee.<\/p>\n

Yes, I had to admit it. It looked like Miss Bee really had done a job on me that summer. Sure enough, I had learned 10 life lessons.<\/p>\n

Make that 11: I also learned that sometimes the angels God sends will be decidedly unangelic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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