I got the laughing almost daily when I worked at Petco, I’d be stuck on my filler saying “um uh” over and over and people would try to hide their laugh but were very bad at it. Every week though I had this one lady who would come in and give me encouragement about my stutter, and tell me to take as much time as I need, forget about the other people and just let it out. I’ll never forget that woman, she almost brought me to tears a couple times cause it was some holiday and I was stressing out cause I was doing everything in the store and she came in and literally just got one toy for her dog and said she wanted to check on me. It’s times like that you never forget. When you get the understanding people it changes your whole day, whether you’re having a real crappy day or you’re just not feeling it, those people who don’t finish your sentence, give you eye contact the whole time you stutter, let you finish then ask questions. It’s those people who got me in good moods. One time I was checking someone out and he was got a crap ton of stuff for his fish, his total came out to something like $888.88. Right as I saw that my mind went “FUCK!!” Cause 8 is my worst enemy. I was stuck there with my mouth open and he said he didn’t care about the total, I told him I was gonna tell him but that I have a stutter. He said that he assumed as much and after he said that I told him “you have no idea how long that would’ve taken me. I hate the number 8.” He laughed and started asking me about my stutter, which I actually like, I love talking about my stutter, I love the psychology behind it. He was cool and every other we saw each other he would how my stutter was and I’d let him know and he’d ask for the total depending on my stutter.