Sometimes you find joy in the strangest places, like the grocery checkout line

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My grocery cart filled to my budget, I preview the checkout line options. The cashier at Lane 1 is calling for a price check; Lane 2 has three customers in line, each of their carts blessed with a bounty. I choose Line 3. Three people in line, one cart is filled with plenty but there are two lean ones, too.

I glance over at the magazines. The cover of one of the rags has a photograph of a man placed diagonally across the page with a caption on top that reads “World’s tallest man, so tall we couldn’t fit him on the page.” I laugh out loud and make a mental note to share this ludicrous claim at my weekend coffee date with friends. I look up at