The Weird, Strange, and the Mysterious

There are some weird, strange, and mysterious things that I have begun to notice. I thought I would share with you. (Thanks to those who have pointed out weird things to me, now I have noticed)

1. Miscellaneous Shoes- These are shoes that you randomly see while you are driving or walking somewhere. How is it possible for so many people to lose ONE shoe? Where is the other one? Because I know I am staring at one, logically, it would seem that the other shoe would still be attached to the foot of the wearer. But how is this possible? Do they know they lost a shoe? How can they lose a shoe? I don't think I have ever been driving while one shoe decided it was through with me and committed shoe suicide by throwing itself out of the window. Weird. (Thanks Kalie for making me ponder.)

2. The Case of the Missing Socks- Since we just discussed shoes, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss socks. This one has not only plagued me, but millions of people around the world. Just how do you end up with odd socks? Where did they go? I mean, it's not like they are so small that you lose them behind or under the washer or dryer. After all, I seem to have all of my underpants, and they are roughly the same size as socks. OK, that sounds weird, but stick with me here. So you keep your odd socks out, hoping someday, the missing one will turn up. Magically? I'm not sure why we expect a sock to say, OK, I am tired of hiding. I will come back to my mate. I mean really. Then one day, you look in your sock drawer at all the odd socks and decide to throw them out. Or use as dust rags. Whatever. Then, months, maybe years later, the mate shows up. HUH? Seriously mysterious.

3. K-Mart-  I recently stopped by K-Mart the other day to pick up some stuff I needed for my kids and the lesson I was planning. Get this: K-Mart (at least the one by my house) has 26...yes, 26!....handicapped parking places. Not that I mind have those spaces. People need them. I get it. I don't mind parking far away and walking. It's all good. But 26? Truly? FYI K-Mart, you are lucky if you have that many customers in ONE day! Least of all 26 handicapped people at one time!

4. The Grocery Store- Don't you hate it when you make a list to go to the grocery store, go grocery shopping, come home and unload, just to realize you forgot something! Or worse, you already had a certain product at home, but by the time you make the list, go to the store, get home, the product is gone, or is nearly gone. UGH.

5. Fruit and Its Demise- Speaking of the grocery store, don't you hate when you get your groceries and your fruit, go stand in the checkout line-which BTW, seems to take even longer now because for some reason, cashiers have gotten slower?-and check out. So, the cashier is being fairly kind with your food. I mean, he or she isn't yelling to the bagging person, Go long! and chucking your bread or whatever. However, when it comes to fruit, they pick it up (so thanks for not sliding it like you do the package of meat to ring it up over the scanner), but then they PLOP it down on the scanner to type in the code, then CHUCK IT more than halfway down the conveyor belt, so the bagging person can then hold it up perilously high, just to let it fall in the bag. WTF people? By the time I get home, my poor fruit is bruising and weeping at the injustice of how it has been treated.

6. Razor Companies- Why, why, why do you find a great razor, that's not cheap, but not the most expensive, buy it, love it, and then after a couple of times of buying replacement blades-because, they too, are not the cheapest but not the priciest-THEY DON'T HAVE THEM ANYMORE? Now, you have to buy a whole new razor. This one is new, you have to get used to it, and come to realization that you can't become too attached, because one day, one horrible day, they will not sell the replacement blades. Causing you to then, purchase a new one, go through the whole bonding process again, just to be devastated at some point. Please quick toying with our emotions! Why do they do this anyway? Just for fun? Just to keep their job at producing a "better" razor, when the one I had was perfect? Jeez people.

I was going to try to make it to 10, but I think this is enough of the weird, strange, and mysterious for you to ponder at the moment. Plus, I can't really think of anything else at the moment.