you go on a beautiful fall hike with your hubby on your wedding anniversary but just as you get to the turnaround point you tumble down a hill and luckily your husband doesn’t come tumbling after but
you invite your friends for dinner and instead of cooking a basic meal that you’ve perfected you decide you need to impress them with something new
you sit down to meditate and get about 9 breaths in but then you feel your underwear riding up and your mind starts wondering why panties or jeans are referred to as pairs when they are really only one piece of clothing
you are waiting on an answer to a question at work and your boss tells you to call and follow up and you agree with him but then don’t actually call because that would involve a telephone
you are chatting to a friend and they tell you that they miss their son who has just left for university and you jump in to tell them how sad you felt when your son went away and how long it took him to settle in and how often he came home and
you are 6 years old in 1969 and your mom buys you Barbie dolls but you would much rather play with your brothers’ Dinky cars in the gravel driveway
You get a yin yang tattoo after years of consideration and the other soccer moms are shocked because they always thought you were so serious and conservative they say things like you go girl which makes you want to punch them in the face
you are at the grocery store and it takes you three tries to remember your PIN and you say something like I don’t get out much or even better I just found this bank card in the frozen section
you have lots of favourite things and they do indeed include raindrops on roses and warm woolen mittens but not whiskers on kittens and definitely not brown paper packages tied up with string because that would be a gift which you now have to open