The light changed and the walk signal flashed. I stepped jauntily into the roadway, humming my granddaughter’s favorite tune, The Wheels on the Bus. I didn’t even feel it as I was crushed under the yellow monster.
Feeling accomplished, I left the pharmacy with a smiley-face Band-Aid on each arm. I was vaccinated against COVID, tetanus, diphtheria, shingles, pertussis, and pneumonia. My mammogram was clear, my colonoscopy “clean as a whistle” and all the tartar was off my teeth. Spring was finally on the way, as a warm coffee-flavored breeze wafted while I waited to cross the street to Starbucks.
The light changed and the walk signal flashed. I stepped jauntily into the roadway, humming my granddaughter’s favorite tune, The Wheels on the Bus. I didn’t even feel it as I was crushed under the yellow monster.
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Jennifer Duncan
15/3/2024 11:52:02 am
Life is never safe. Well done.
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Peggy Gerber
15/3/2024 04:46:56 pm
Exactly right. Life is so unpredictable. We worry about every tiny little thing, and it’s usually the wrong things.
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Paul A. Freeman
15/3/2024 04:57:02 pm
I saw that coming - unlike the narrator.
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Christa Loughrey
15/3/2024 05:55:15 pm
When your number's up, your number's up.
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Cheryl Dahlstrand
15/3/2024 07:28:08 pm
Such an interesting commentary: the elimination of threats cannot really protect us from life's arbitrariness.
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Robert Martin
15/3/2024 08:41:11 pm
I see the problem. You forgot to stop at the optician's.
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Krystyna
15/3/2024 09:40:20 pm
Unfortunately, we cannot cover the whole terrain without missing something. How tragic! Well written, Sherri.
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