life lessons from strangers

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Picture this: you’re standing in line at the grocery and the cashier starts small talk with you. Your mind is going 100 miles a minute: “did I get everything for that recipe? oh, I need to call so-and-so back…shoot, i need to write that down (I’ll never remember it), and I only have–wait–where’s my phone?–I only have 3 hours until I pick up the kids from school….” All this– and the guy behind the counter wants to know how your day is. (Can’t he see that I’m (more…)