Lovely lesson in gratitude

I VISITED my regular barber recently. He was on a video call when I got into the chair and it felt awkward being on the screen (although in a mask) for a few seconds as he told the other person he had a customer to attend to and had to go.

In the next three minutes or so he received two more video calls and on both occasions I understood the word “customer” while he spoke in his mother tongue to the other person to cut short the call. I appreciated that he was hanging up but I was wondering if it would have been easier to just go on silent mode or not answer.Later on during our conversation, I found out the reason for those calls when he told me, “Boss hari ni saya punya engagement (Boss, today is my engagement day)”. I went “Apa?!”