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My six-year-old granddaughter, Catherine, and I stopped at a bakery for some bread. As we were going out the door, a young teenage boy was coming in.

This young man had no hair on the sides of his head and some blue hair on top of it. One of his nostrils was pierced(穿孔), and his ears were full of rings. He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other. Catherine, who was walking ahead of me, _________ when she saw the teen.

I thought he’d scared her and she’d frozen on the spot. I was wrong. My Grand Angel backed up against the door and opened it as _________ as it would go. Now I was face to face with the young man. I stepped aside and let him pass. His response was a kind “Thank you very much.”

On our way to the car, I praised Catherine for her _________ in holding open the door for the young man. She didn’t seem to be _________ by his appearance but I wanted to make sure. If a grandmotherly talk about freedom of self-expression and allowing people their differences was in order, I wanted to be ready.

It turned out that the person who needed the talk was me. The only thing Catherine noticed about the teen, was the fact ‘that his arms were full. “He would’ve had a hard time to open the door.” I saw the partially shaved head, the blue hair, the piercings and the earrings. She saw a person carrying something under each arm and heading toward a door. I’m always the one who is so quick to judge. In the future, I hope to get down on her _________ and raise my sights.