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Double Vision
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Well That Was Funny
By Mary Ellen Angelscribe
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
~George Burns
Our daughter and her young family were not home, so my husband and I went for a quick swim in their pool. Then we went back home. Just before arriving home I began looking for my sunglasses. They were not in the vehicle’s cubby, on the floor, or in my purse. I patted the top of my head, twice. Not there. Had they slipped behind me and were tangled in my long hair? A thorough search and squeeze of hair did not reveal the glasses. We searched under and behind the car seat. I could not understand how “we” had left them behind.
Once in our driveway, my husband joined in the search. We searched under and behind the car’s seat. He double-checked all the locations, and we still could not find them. They were officially invisible, leaving only one conclusion.
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