I had picked up some groceries (including some anchovies) and was waiting in the small store’s only open checkout line. There was one person with a full cart in front of me, a woman behind me with a few items.
A second clerk hustled by and opened a second register. The woman behind me backed up as if to use that register, but she gestured for me to go ahead of her. Oh. That was nice. Thank you.
But as I maneuvered into the new lane, and as she adjusted her position to let me in, she accidentally ran her cart into my Achilles tendon. No big deal, no harm done, but it was as if some cosmic force was saying, “You got a favor there, but I need to collect a little tax from you in order to maintain balance in the universe.”
Yes, the balance must be maintained.
ReplyDeleteThey say, "No good deed goes unpunished," but I'm thinking the doer of the good deed isn't necessarily the one who gets punished.
DeleteHmmm, undt just vaht vould zat mean, Herr Doktor?
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