Smile

We usually walk around so absorbed by our own thoughts, which in general are not the most uplifting ones, that when we face some "stranger" that smiles openly looking at us in the eyes we get surprised.

It happened to me recently at the supermarket, and then I found this bumper sticker.

This is the quite the opposite of an annoyance and therefore worth mentioning here

Lady luck

My father used to say..."One should always leave a door open for good luck to step in..." So following his advice, I went to buy a lottery ticket at the supermarket yesterday. In front of me was a lady who was buying several tickets from several games for different people. She also had tickets from past draws that needed to be checked.

The young man at the lotto machine evidently couldn't register all the different requests at once and got totally confused.

One of the tickets he checked had won $4.00 that had to be added to the amount of money used to buy new tickets. Some of the money had to be applied to two different groups of tickets in two different games.

After 10 minutes trying to figure out all the different operations he had to do, the customer was about to jump on the counter and and kick the machine (and the the guy), and he would look at her with crossed eyes.

So, very patiently the lady broke down the operation in one-single-order segments and was finally able to get her tickets.

I guess it wasn't my lucky day. I waited in line all that time and lady luck decided to pass me by.

Schmack, schmack...

I get really irritated by the open-mouth, bubble-popping, gum chewing people

Schmack, schmack...