- Fatimah Leftwich, the cashier, noticed that Mary-Ann Byrnes was struggling
This is the touching moment a cashier helps a mother by picking up her crying toddler and scanning items with her.
Mary-Ann Byrnes, 38, was shopping at a Dollar Tree store when her 2-year-old daughter collapsed.
Fatimah Leftwich, who works as a cashier, noticed that Mary-Ann was having difficulty and kindly asked the child, also named Mary-Ann, if she wanted to help behind the counter. The kid immediately said yes.
Mary-Ann, a freelance production worker from Cedar Grove, New Jersey, said that she “went with my daughter and my mother to a Dollar Tree store near town to pick up a few things.”
She added: “My mother had a separate shopping cart and was still shopping when we stood in line and the store was quite busy.”
Fatimah Leftwich, who works as a cashier, noticed that Mary-Ann was having difficulty and kindly asked the child, also named Mary-Ann, if she wanted to help behind the counter. The kid immediately said yes
Mary-Ann Byrnes with her child at the checkout. She said: “My daughter is at the toddler stage where she becomes restless and constantly wants to be picked up.”
“My daughter is at the toddler stage where she becomes restless and constantly wants to be picked up.
“So she started crying and had a little breakdown, which was hard to deal with with all my stuff that I wanted to pay for and not making people wait behind me.”
Mary-Ann said: “She asked if it was cool to pick up my daughter and then helped her scan all of my items and even some of the people behind me!”
“I saw a woman who could calm my daughter with such wonderful, trusting energy. “It was wonderful.”
A video shows Mary-Ann lying completely relaxed in Fatimah's arms and scanning objects while Fatimah tells her that she is a fast learner.
Mary-Ann and Fatimah have kept in touch since the video was filmed, and Fatimah has since been moved to a Dollar Tree near her home.