“Will plastic be alright?
It was our time to stock the pantry and the freezer so, this was the big one! The shopper ahead was already pushed through the scanner but, they had evidently encountered some other difficulty because everything was stopped except the always helpful animated hand motion. I located myself beside the full cart at the customer end of an empty conveyor belt and started unpacking. I placed the first items as far in front of me as I could reach on the empty belt to take advantage of all the room I could. Suddenly, for no sound reason, the checkout stepped on the “belt ahead” button and moved my tiny hand full of groceries and my empty belt space smack slammer against the scanner, way out of reach. Now I’m back to available empty conveyor belt space only as far as I can reach until the ensuing problem is solved. I decided to unpack and carefully stack my groceries like a farmer stacks hay bales to get them all into the barn. I was nearly finished when the finger was pulled out of the dike and things started to flow again.
“Will plastic be alright?”
“Yes, plastic is fine but, please don’t put more than one glass container in the same bag.”
When I finished the transaction I noticed all my groceries, except those in glass containers, had been put into plastic bags and were back in my cart ready to be pushed out to our vehicle.
Here was this covey of glass bottles and jars scrunched together on the exit side of the scanner, all tucked away inside the confusion of the bagger. I could almost read his “Ok, this is what you got, now what?”
I’m sure he was programmed to do his job correctly but, do you suppose I nudged him right past the end of the program?

We don’t look alike but, we’ve acknowledged that fact and if we accept the difference, we can work around it and live happily ever after!
Oh, what’s the English word for tsiel?
When putting up a new fence, the next pole goes in a different spot when my wife tsiels ( is dictating “straight” ) then it does when I’m tsieling ( dictating “straight” ) We don’t look alike!
That one is easy, simply don’t change designated driver until after the fence is up. So we have fences that run along different straights on our property, but who cares?
Having mastered the solution to that simple ‘not look alike” gives us a good foundation to dictate straight in other differences we encounter.
“Did you want me to tsiel this one or do you want to?”
We Don’t Look Alike!

How would you explane life's value difference, or is there none?

It all happened on Friday April 11.
My blog was “Going Nowhere?”
My famous Chinese good fortune cookie at noon was empty, my good fortune was going Nowhere
The wind blew my deposit slip out of the drive through banking push out tray bankside down along the concrete way ahead of me. My deposit was going Nowhere until I retrieved that sailing slip from that hungry wind.
I had loaded craft items to donate to the MCC Sale which started at 4:00 pm, due to certain unplanned circumstances, we chose not to go to Hutchinson. My craft items went Nowhere, they are still in the van.
If there’s a subliminal lesson buried here, it could be -
IF YOU”RE PLANNING ON GOING NOWHERE FAST,
PLANNING OUT LOUD IS A THING OF THE PAST.
“CAUSE, NOWHERE JUMPS IN AND GOES ALONG FOR THE RIDE
AND YOU WILL END UP HAVING NOWHERE TO HIDE
AND ONE THING I KNOW RINGS TRULY TRUE TRUE
NOWHERE KEEPS RIGHT ON PESTERING YOU!

You don’t think you can go Nowhere?
Don’t look for it on the map
You’ll find so many crossroads
Could be hiding in a gap

You can look everywhere first for Nowhere
Look out all thirteen directions
Still, you won’t find Nowhere anywhere
To make the right connections

Simply ease back to comfy in faithful recliner
No, the urge to go Nowhere won’t pass
But, your trip will seem impossibly short
‘Cause, you’ll be going Nowhere fast!