A Funny Thing Happened....

A funny thing happened to me recently when I was preparing to go to visit my elderly Mother-In-Law.

On our way out of town we stopped by the local Wal-Mart to pick up some supplies.  As it is a 6+ hour trip we thought it would be a good idea to pick up some drinks and snacks where it is cheaper so we didn't need to stop at convenience stores for those items enroute.  However our stop at Wal-Mart turned out to be a little more exciting than we planned.

I was tasked to go pick up some sodas.  The section that has the soda-pop is in the rear of the store behind the grocery area, so I trekked back to get what we wanted.  I enjoy drinking caffeine free Diet Coke, but I didn't see it right away.  When I did find it, it was stored a little differently than usual.  I didn't have a basket with me and I wanted 2 2-liter bottles.  They were placed upright on the rack, like all the other brands/flavors, but they also had 2 bottles laying horizontally on top of the other bottles.  AND THAT WAS WHERE MY TROUBLE BEGAN.

First I have to tell you that I am not as strong as I once was.  My hands are filled with arthritis and so I can't grasp as well as I have in the past.

I got the first bottle with no problem.  After all, I had two hands to do it with.  It was the second bottle that caused all the excitement.  I got it out of the rack, but it was upside down.  While I was trying to get it upright it slipped out of my hands.

Have you ever seen a bottle rocket?  This two liter bottle of soda slipped from my hand and landed on the floor in the lid-down position.  It hit the floor with a great "thud" and exploded upwards like a bottle rocket, spewing Diet Coke along the way.  There was a large metal poster on the wall and this "rocket" hit that metal poster with a great BANG!

And then people began to show up.  The young man that runs that department was the first to arrive.  He couldn't figure out what happened, so I told him all about it.  In the mean time there was Coke all over the floor.  Wal-Mart employees and other shoppers were tracking it all over the place while I was telling my story.  I guess nobody ever looks where they are walking....  It wasn't funny at the time, but I've sure had fun telling the story to my family.  There is not one ounce of embellishment to this story.  It all happened just as I've told it.

I guess you have to get your amusement where you can....