That Just Happened!

Almost everyday I walk to the corner to the Tim Hortons to get me and/or my boss a coffee. On the way there I pass a Licks Restaurant.  This past summer Licks decided to make their outside look a bit more appealing.  They put up a white picket fence (probably to keep the people waiting for the bus off their tables) and added some shrubbery.  Since they planted the tree they have pretty much left it to its own devices.  There is one shrub tree in particular that has become unruly.  It has one branch that sticks out over past the fence at eye height. 

Every day on my way to Tim Hortons I manage to avoid it as I walk on the left.  On the way back I get hit in the face.  Every day.  You think I would learn to avoid it by now, but I am so busy walking on the left and trying to stay out of people’s way without making eye contact that I always forget about it.  Yesterday was the first day I missed it!  I actually remembered to avoid the stupid branch.  I felt smugly superior. Ha ha!  I beat you shrub!

I am a firm believer in what my sister and I like to call “the world slap”.  Kind of like what goes around comes around.  If you think/say/do bad things the world will come back around and slap you in the face.  As in this instance.  Apparently the world was not about to let me walk around feeling all holier-than-thou about the tree. This morning, I forgot about the tree.  Again.  Only it didn’t hit me. Nope, but I caught it out of the corner of my eye just in time.  Then I jerked back like I had been hit, spilt coffee down my sleeve and stumbled down the sidewalk.  In front of a looong line of cars waiting to turn left.  With drivers.  Looking at me as if I was actually carrying an Irish coffee.  Wondering if they should get out and help, but obviously too scared because I am obviously looney-tunes. Tree: lost count, Jenn: 0.

Yeah, That Just Happened!