You Can Learn A LOT from a Watermelon
Aldi. If you can’t get it at Aldi, you didn’t need it. Today was National “Make a Fresh Fruit Tray to Take over to Uncle Larry’s EPIC HOMEMADE Italian Sausage Bash” Day. I don’t know why Google didn’t have it on the search engine??? So, I bought a pineapple, strawberries, and a watermelon! (Properly pronounced wat-er-mel-own’. That is what the childrens learnt me. Homeschoolers… Really…) Unfortunately, as I finished loading up my haul, my cart was full. My watermelon was the odd man out. I decided to put it UNDER the cart.
Lesson #1 Gravity is real.
It turns out the bottom of the cart is automatically downhill. There was a slight lip on the bottom front edge of the cart to keep my big fat baby from helplessly rolling into the great unknown. I thought, huh… JUST TO THE PARKING LOT!!! You just have to stay put nicely under that cart—just to the parking lot…
I started carefully pushing my cart out the exit, then out the second exit into the parking lot. I was getting pretty confident I was going to make it… until I stopped the cart, the watermelon rolled right off the end and I instantly was faced with:
LESSON #2 Parking downhill was a mistake.
So there I am. A GROWN WOMAN! Chasing after this watermelon downhill in a sprint. I had physics in high school and COLLEGE. I know the laws of acceleration. I know all about gravity. Which is probably why I caught that watermelON’… Eventually…
Lesson #3 Never Park downhill at Aldi ever again.
Turns out the cart had no brakes either. As I was chasing, missing, catching and dropping this OBESE BABY, my beautiful watermelon’, my cart was up to 73 mph heading right toward my unsuspecting vehicle… MY BIG beautiful baby was slipping out of my arms as I was now sprinting toward my WAYWARD CART. Someone was probably laughing their face off while facebook livestreaming my debacle. Send me the link, ok? But I GET A CUT OF THE ten grand when we win big on funniest home video!
In the end, the vehicle lived, the watermelon lived, all was well in the world. I was even able to take a sweet gramma’s cart back for her.
Lesson #4 It could always be worse.
Coulda tripped while chasing and smashed my face. Coulda dropped that watermelon and had a giant splat. Coulda had a gorgeous new dent to explain to cute husband. Coulda given in to grumbling and complaining instead of trusting and believing. Every day life is HARD! The Bible is the answer. Letting the Word of God change the way you react to life leads to TRUE JOY.
