Don’t Worry, She Said.
After
tennis I hurried into the grocery store to pick up fixin’s for dinner – a surprise
dinner for my dearest friend. Despite it being barely 50 degrees outside, I was
stinky! I wanted to get in and out and home quickly. Alas it was not meant to
be. With a Hawks’ game tomorrow and Thanksgiving a few days ahead, the store
was packed. Since I can’t do anything in a linear fashion, I was all over the
store. I was nearly done when I got stuck behind an elderly lady pushing a big,
mostly empty cart. I wheeled around her and she caught my eye. “I can’t find
the cookies,” she declared.
I
looked at the signs and said, “They are two more aisles down.” Her eyes
remained fixed on me. “They are just two
more down, I’ll take you there.”
We made
it to the cookies and she began to talk, “You know, I’m 93-years old. I have 50
grand kids.”
“Wow,
that’s an amazing life.”
“The
secret is to not worry. You will always get w…