Is it Fate?
I was grocery shopping with my dad and he told me to get a shopping cart. So, I went to the carts are, and
pulled out the first cart I saw. As I was pushing it to the orange stand, where my dad was, I noticed that I
had to apply more pressure on one side of the cart to prevent it from going to that side... I had to apply
more force than I actually needed, to make the cart to go straight. (Get it?) Soon, I discovered that one
of the four wheels was slower than the other three.
Being too lazy to go back and change it, I stood by my dad while he was picking the oranges, asking myself, �Should I go back and change this cart for
something that works better?� What if it was fate that led me to pick this cart? If I changed it, would it
be going against my fate or would it be fate or predestiny that made me change carts? Then that really got
me thinking, if I did change it, wouldn�t it I look stupid standing in front of the carts, picking a different
cart and analyzing the efficiency of the wheels? Would it be fate that led me to look really stupid like
that?
Before I could really think about it, my dad finished picking the oranges and I had to start pushing
the retarded cart that fate led me to choose. Actuallly, I tried to walk away from the cart, so that my dad
would push it instead of me, but he just asked, �Can you push the cart?� Anyway, we had to buy cheese
(cuz I was gonna make cheese bread with our breadmaker.)
So, walking to the cheese department (and pushing the cart) I realized his always happens to me. Everytime I get a cart I always get a retarded cart.
Is it just coincidence or does this reflect the path of my life? Will I always pick the wrong cart in the grocery store called LIFE? Will I always have that
one broken wheel in my shopping cart (aka Decisions)? That gave me a chill down my spine... or was it
just because I was in the frozen food section?
Anyway, finished with our shopping, we headed toward the �10 items or less� line. I looked down at our cart to put our groceries away and I saw we only had 5
items. Why the hell did I get a cart for only 5 items?
by Kristine Zambrano, May 1995