Needed Shoes

Needed shoes
This is a short story just about how things sometimes work. Saturday morning I went to Wal-Mart to get antifreeze and some oil. At the check out, I had gotten some novelty Halloween gifts for my wife, I told the cashier I was getting these for my wife as her birthday in on Halloween. She told me her daughter’s birthday is also Halloween. I said something like, wow that is cool. We talked a little more, as I left she called out, "tell you wife, happy birthday from me.

Then I went on to Top Shoes but they weren’t open yet. To kill time I browsed through Hastings, looking at books. I thought even though I was enjoying myself I don’t know why I came here, I could have gone to AutoZone to get the Heater Core. This struck me cause on "This American Life" which airs on NPR Fridays at 7:00 PM. They were talking about how sometimes we do things without knowing why, it was an interesting show. You can hear the broadcasts on their web page 1 week after it airs.

So I drove down to AutoZone. I was the only customer and the guys were joking around which of course I stepped right in with their joking. I told the guy what I needed, he looked it up, as he read the part number off the screen I could tell by his expression something was up. He bent down and pulled the very part I needed with out having to move his feet. We were all astonished, I mean what were the odds, I said you must have 6000 parts in this store. He said just a minute before a woman returned this. wow… I went on to tell them the Wal-Mart story that just happened. Then he told me about his friend who he by my reckoning is obsessed with the number 11. He said when he looks at his watch or whatever the number 11 comes up. He went on a little long with his story. Then as we were walking towards the counter he added, I once had a dog that was born on Halloween. So I kind of just bopped out of the store feeling a kind of wonderment (one must enjoy the little things thrown our way).

I went on to the shoe store, this store has the various widths, like EEE or 3E or Wide depending on the manufacture’s system. When first walking in the store I held the door for this guy who seems to be hobbling along. In the store the salesman asked me what did I needed today. I told him and I made a comment that their store is only place to go as the Wal-Marts of the world just carry 1 width of very uncomfortable shoes, cheap, but not for me. The other customer, who hobbled said, "you got that right". These are work shoes I’m talking about, steel toes and all. The Right shoes are very important for a machinist, believe me, I felt a little bad for the dude with the problem.

That is about it for this story except one more thing, I jotted down some note to myself on all what had happened because my wife loves to here about things like that. I kind of forgot about it until she spotted my notes on the desk kind of late last night, she asked me what is this? Well I went on to tell her the grand story. We were cracking up, at one point I said when talking abut the man in the store with the foot problem I said, "that guys problem is much worse then mine, but wait a minute, I ain’t got no problem…end

I plan on finishing the machining blog soon, this writing thing takes time that I seem to not have a lot of.