The Little Things

My life is full of incredible adventures in the most simplistic forms. In fact, our family motto is, “Always an adventure!”. Yesterday, my fabulous boyfriend and I were at the oh, so healthy KFC for dinner and we were the only people in there. That is until this frantic woman comes in with her kid trailing behind her. She bustles past us to the front counter and starts talking to one of the employees. I couldn’t tell you what happened from there because from that point on our attention was focused on the boy (who was 5 or 6 years old). He bounces from place to place drumming his hands on anything he can touch. His mother makes a haphazard attempt to calm him, but come on, it’s a little boy who looks like he’s been downing pixie sticks. So he finally rests on the station where the straws and napkins are, playing with various things until he stops on the little hole where you can throw away your straw wrappers. This, of course, lead to him pulling out straw wrappers and various sorts of trash. All the while his mother is still at the counter. Thomas and I are minding our own business, but out of nowhere Thomas says in a casual voice, “Mmm trash.” I look over and the kid is eating the straw wrappers! The irony of all of this is that the little boy heard Thomas, but the mom still had no idea that her son was still in the store. After the little boy looks at Thomas for a second, he continues on with his meal, searching for more gourmet cuisine. We must have laughed for ten minutes straight, it was so funny.

So this whole 300 words of a post may seem absolutely trivial, but that’s the whole point. It’s the inside jokes that make you and your best friend burst into hysterical laughter at any time… That’s what makes life such a great adventure!