By Ashley Kincade ·Updated June 10, 2022
Several weeks ago as I was shopping in my local grocery store, I reached the check-out counter and started exchanging pleasantries with the two young men checking out my groceries and bagging them. Suddenly, we all heard it—three loud pops echoing through the store, happening in succession.
It was just a few seconds, but it felt like the longest pause of my life. All three
