Here is an indisputable fact. Whichever line you are not in, will be the faster moving one. Happens without fail. I cannot even begin to count the number of times I pick the wrong line. It looks like, by all measures, it’s moving quickly and then the person right in front of me has some issue. This can be at the supermarket, airport, or bank. Actually, I don’t know about banks. I can barely remember the last time I went in one. But I digress. Regardless, I pick the wrong line. I think I have a methodology and turns out I’m just unlucky.
This thought, and frequent occurrence reminds me of the movie “Luck” where the protagonist always has bad luck. There’s a whole separate world that dispenses good and bad luck. And, she seems to have continually been dispensed bad luck. Until one day she learns of a lucky penny. But that’s not the point, nor will I give away the ending.
Some people have good luck while others have bad luck. Then there’s the neutral (even) group. Those who win and lose some. They even out. It’s like that old Seinfeld episode about luck. My mom believed she had good luck until she didn’t. In each case she won many things wnd then lost many things. Luck, can at yimes, be what we make of it. Even we’re unlucky. Go figure.
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psychologistmimi 
Maybe we always seem to be on the slowest line because when we are on the fastest one we don’t notice at all. I think sometimes we have a false perception of what happens to us.
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Agree. Quite possibly true!
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I’m good at spotting the best queue while my OH has amazing luck with parking spaces.
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Ah, a complimentary couple!!! 🙂
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We like to think so
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SMiLes Dear Miriam Some of Us Are Born ‘Lucky’ As ‘Showers’
Others of Us Are Born Another Way Where We Have No Choice Yet to Grow
Life IS A Lot Like Halloween
Don’t Like The Costume
We aRe Create A New
One Even Naked
Enough Whole Complete
Oh Dear Lord i Used to Find Myself
in the Longest Lines too Everyone Else
So Lucky to Get to “The Cashier First”
So Many ‘To Do Lists’ During The WorKinG
Years Indeed All that Was Left to Do is ReTiRE
Early Eventually Put New Treads on Barren Wheels
Yep 66 Months of Hell With No To Do List Now 111 Months
And 6 Days Writing 11 MiLLioN Words of Free Verse Poetry
And Public Dancing 17,366 MiLes Everywhere i Go Truly A Cure
to Long Lines
NoW is FoRTuNE of That NeW
As Long Lines to See ‘The Cashier’
Becomes Just Like Mountain Climbing
Without A Safety Harness Always Attaining
More Autotelic Flow No Longer Worrying About
Shower or Grower Always in the Sweet Spot Tween
Anxiety And Apathy Dancing A Tight Rope Higher
And Higher in Effortless ‘Wue Wei’ Ease As Dancing
in the Check-Out Line is Yes One of the Most Complex
Constantly Improving Human Potential Ways of Free
Dancing in Meditative Flow Ya Can’t Upset Anyone
Or They Will Get You Kicked Out of the Store You
Must Make Everyone SMiLe To Enjoy the Bliss
And Bless Hehe Even So Very Much More
i Am Always Hoping my Wife Gets
Unlucky Again and Again
And Puts Us in Line
With the Folks
Whose Magnetic
Strip is All Screwed
Up on their Credit Card
Just More Potential of
GRoWinG Improving
Complexity of Very Slow
Check-Out Line Public Dance
And It Doesn’t Matter How i SHoW
iT All that Matters is the GRoWinG SMiLes
of OTHeRS All the Way Around the UNiVeRSE of me WiTH SMiLes…
You See It Was Almost Like A Sign When i Couldn’t Speak Until 4
You See It Was Almost Like A Sign When my Peers Related i Was
Too Strange Too Weak Too Ugly and Didn’t Deserve to Exist
You See i WaS A Weed And it Took the Wild Flower of me A
Full 53 Years to Actually Bloom And Grow That Way As It’s
True i Was Not
Born A Shower
Only A Grower Am i…
Luck Implies Chaos Past NeW
Art Creates ReaL MaGiC NoW
God Is LucK iS iLLuSioN ReaL
It’s Like That Song “Havana”
Or “Rosalind’s Eyes” When Loved
Ones Go Away or Die You Breathe A New Life For them
Even if it is
You All
in One
Lifetime New…
SMiLes Dear Chinese New
Year Rat Peer Born A Cycle
Then Behind Now You Are Three
Years Younger Before i Started to Even Live
Particularly Thrive
New Now Always
STaRTinG No
To Do Lists
iN Heaven
i Create
my self at Least…
Create Your Halloween (Continuing Story Only You)
Costume New to Your Soul’s FoRTuNE VeRiLY Complete…
Yet This is
ALL OnLY
mY View With SMiLes…
Just Another Never Ending ALWaYS STaRTinG Story New Now…
At Essence No Different Than A Meditating Dance in Flow
iN A NeVeR Ending Autotelic Line Only Spiraling in Heaven More
WHere
An Only
Cashier is
Always me New Now..:)
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