A Slice of Life
Bill Lites
Reading is not my favorite thing to do. I have been told that my word dyslexia is what causes words to get jumbled up as I read and sometimes words even drop out or are added to what I see. This makes for some interesting if not frustrating situations.
Take for instance the last time I went to the store to pick up a few things for my wife. She had given me a list of things she needed which included four cans of four different soups. Years ago, this would not have been much of a problem for me as each soup had only one label. All I had to do was read the label correctly.
Today it’s a little more complicated than that. When I looked on the soup shelf for a can of Cream of Celery soup, there was green label “Low Sodium”, green label “Heart Healthy” plain label “98% Fat Free”, plain label “Reduced Fat” and blue label “great for Cooking” – I think that was all. Anyway, you get the picture. Now, we were raised on the real thing, when it comes to soup, and my wife still wants the real thing for all her cooking. Well, as you might imagine, I spent some time looking through all those different labels to find the real thing for each of the four types of soup she wanted. I even had to take some items out of my basket and put them back on the shelf after I discovered I had picked up another wrong-labeled item.
When I got home, I was pleased to see that I had managed to get all the right kinds of soup on the list. But then, my wife asked me, “Is this stick the only type of Benadryl they had?” I had spent a lot of time looking over the different types of Anti-Itch products, reading and comparing the ingredients and thought I had the right thing. But, right there, in big black letters was the word “Stick” not “Cream “on the front of the box. I guess I had been so involved in checking the ingredients that my brain looked right over the obvious. Fortunately I had also bought another brand of anti-itch product that just happened to be “cream” for my medicine cabinet, so I just traded with her.
Romans 8:28
Old Things R New 