Ever since I could remember, my grandmother would always get on me about making sure my shoes were tied, I would come from outside and that’s the first thing she would look at, she has passed away years ago but my habit of keeping my shoes tied didn’t fade with her and without her always nagging me about it I wouldn’t be alive today. A few years back after getting off of work, I went to the gas station to get some snacks, it was what seemed to be a typical nite as I was strolling down the isle looking up and down at the shelves when I noticed my right shoe string was undone, I felt lazy and didn’t want to even bend all the way down to do it but I thought to myself that my grandmother is probably turning in her grave at the sight of my untied shoe so I stooped down and proceeded to tie my shoe when I heard a loud bang and a window shatter and what felt like a sudden beam of heat over my head, come to find out it was a bullet and it would have killed me… If I didn’t tie my shoe…
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Tie your shoes.
Nov 23
The Shoe Problem
Oct 17
We were just starting out on a long drive, Los Angeles to San Francisco. My passenger got a call. He reached into his pocket to dig out his phone. He was moving up north to go to school and his mother was on the phone. She told him that he had left behind five pairs of shoes. The only shoes he would have this semester would be the pair on his feet. Just as they were having this conversation I noticed a car ahead of us. The license plate on the car was SHOE FIX. It seemed especially appropriate, as though a random car was notating our conversation, but it wasn’t going to help us fix this particular shoe problem.
We talked a lot on the drive about things we’d have to buy in San Francisco, including a mattress. Every time we talked about mattresses we saw one – strapped to the roof of a car or jigging in the flat bed of a truck. There was even one flopped in the middle of the freeway that we had to swerve around. I had a teacher once who said if you think about yellow Volkswagens then all you’re going to see are yellow Volkswagens. That day we saw that principle in action, only with mattresses. Synchronicity or just a random event or two? What do you think?
