The Comedy of Errors

Though I’m not big on the challenging language of Shakespeare plays like the above title, I do enjoy listening to all the intricacies of people communicating with each other. As a people watcher, I find human beings endlessly entertaining. At the “grocery-side” door I was greeting at, a special family event made me chuckle.

An Asian mother and her teenage son (“Vivian and Roy”) were now in the produce department with a very full grocery cart. The cart was parked next to another one that could have been its twin. The duo went the next aisle over to look for the vegetable of their choice.

I don’t remember if Vivian and Roy found what they were looking for. Vivian took “a cart” and headed down the pathway leading to the “general merchandise” side of the store.

She didn’t get far before I saw her look down at what she’d picked up, and exclaim with a chuckle to Roy, “Oops, these aren’t our groceries.” Mother and son returned to the produce department, corrected the error, and left with the right shopping cart.

How many difficult issues in life have you ever wished could be solved with a simple switch? Correcting mistakes (or sincerely apologizing) is an important growth factor in life. It helps you mature into a more empathetic individual.  Sometimes it can happen, and other times prayer is the only thing that can make a lasting change. None of this is easy. It takes a great deal of humility. Everyone can do this-including you.