CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Life in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic was a bit frantic for everyone, especially for those working at grocery stores.
Now, someone has written a book about life on the "front line."
The part fiction, part memoir "Life on the Grocery Line: A Frontline Experience in a Global Pandemic" was written by Adam Kaat, a Chicagoland native who now lives in Denver where he has worked at a Whole Foods location.
He told WBBM Newsradio that when COVID-19 hit, "people were calling us heroes right away and I remember that feeling weird because I didn't think it was a heroic job, I was just going to work."
Kaat began blogging about his experiences and that grew into a longer narrative.
"Part of the reason that I did write the book was to really shed light on how grocery store workers are treated, also what it was like to work during that time when you're the only ones working and you're deemed essential and other ones aren't. It's definitely eye-opening,” Kaat said.
Kaat said many of the experiences were frustrating, some were funny, and virtually all of them were instructive.
"Having patience and being as kind as you can to the next person is probably the best lesson I think we can learn out of this whole thing. We can be better people out of this,” he said.
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