TRIAL BY ERROR

Once again, I turn the writing today over to the real talent in the family, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

 Soooooooooooooooooo...........................

Let me tell you about my shopping trip today:   Bruce has been doing
most of our shopping since my knee replacement surgery.  But today I
felt up to it and just wanted to get out on my own,

Just as I was getting ready to go our power failed.  I sat down by the
front window ready to wait it out, thinking the power may have failed
at the store also.  Hard to find all that stuff in a dark store and
the computer wouldn't have processed my debit card.

I put on my glasses and turned to the current novel I'm
reading.  In a short while the lights came back on and I left for the
store.  While driving there I noticed my vision was a bit blurry.  I
refused to return home because of that little bother.

Thursdays are a good day at the local store, especially after "Senior
Wednesday" when the store is mobbed.  I headed for the produce
department and started having a hard time telling the cucumbers from
the zucchini.   I suddenly felt I was having a health scare because
everything was blurry.  (Damned if I'll quit now.  I'll finish this
shopping and deal with the oncoming stroke when I get home.)

My list was long so it took about an hour or more to cover all the
ground I needed to cover.  Finally I checked out and headed home.  I
was trying to figure out how to tell Bruce we had a medical emergency.
When I got home he unloaded the car and I put away all the frozen
stuff.  Then I went to lie down and figure out how to tell him.

I stretched out on the bed and removed my glasses.  MY READING
GLASSES!  OMG!   The whole time driving there and shopping had been done without my trusty bifocals, but with my reading glasses.  I
wasn't having a medical crisis.  A stupidity crisis is different.
Entirely different.

I told him.

He made me a drink.

I am healed...........................for the moment.