Shopping at Meijer tonight while zooming around in the store scooter, I stopped at the meat counter for 3 pounds of ground chuck to make lasagna this week.  The young man began scooping out the meat and placed it on the scale.  I noticed the scale read 2 pounds, so I brought it to his attention.  He quickly apologized, saying he was having a little problem hearing.  Noticing the somewhat loud buzz from the fluorescent lights behind him, I said that was understandable.  But the young man looked tired, and I inquired if he had a busy weekend.  He said he was tired, but not from the weekend.  He recently had surgery to repair a punctured ear he had since birth.  Actually, this was the second surgery since the first did not heal properly. He brought the now packaged meat around the counter and placed it in my scooter basket, then said he hoped the ear healed properly this time so he…