Day 3 - 263 -- Lost and Found

It was a very humid day with not a puff of a breeze. Walking across the parking lot seemed stifling -- it felt difficult to breathe. This occurs a bit in the late summer or fall as tropical air masses pass by and drop rain, heat and humidity -- whatever they may be carrying along. The office time brought multiple 15 minute meetings with students again -- looks like the rest of this week will be filled with more of these meetings. They each are interesting as students choose their term project topics.The enthusiasm is great to see. I do enjoy the chats, but I get very tired by the end of the day. It is a lot for a brain to deal with <smile>.

At the end of the day, I stopped at the grocery store to replace all the staples I'd run out of and all the other fresh items that hadn't been replaced since returning from the trip. I was tired and very hungry -- two things that don't go well with filling a grocery cart <smile>. I tried to stick to the list and be as efficient as possible. As I left, I went digging for my car keys. They'd been in the fourth reusable bag that I had. So -- I stopped the cart out by the doors and began to dig through the four bags to find the keys. I unpacked each bag carefully and nothing. I looked out the door at the pouring rain and thought I might have dropped them coming in earlier, but didn't want to wander in the rain to see if that was the case. So -- I chose to begin inside and checked with the customer service desk, but no one was there. I went to the cashier who had rung me through and asked if she'd seen any keys. No. The cashier at the next till -- who had been in my class a couple years ago -- said a customer had found a set of keys. The man who found them noted he'd taken them to customer service, so I returned to the desk to wait for someone to come back. When she arrived, my keys were the ones that had been turned in. It made me happy to be in a smaller town where even in larger stores, people take care of each other.

The song that I found online today matches the process I went through with my groceries and trying to find the keys. The lyrics should make you smile. Enjoy!

She Can't Find her Keys -- Paul Peterson