You know how some days start out frustrating, but then something happens to make you laugh
laugh and makes the frustration...not go away ,but get a little smaller?
Today was one of those days. Doing financial stuff, which for me is frustrating at the best of times, but today it went off the charts frustrating. The final straw was coming in to work, and seeing that someone had put an unopened box in front of the lockers. I kicked the box, it scooted across the floor just as one my coworkers came in and saw me kick it. He gave a startled "Well, good morning!" Just the way he said it, and the look he gave me made me start to laugh at myself for how ridiculous it must have looked. He laughed too as he walked away.
Later, a group of first graders was visiting, and as they were doing their potty break before boarding their busses for a picnic lunch at one of the local parks, some of them were chattering to me in that bright way kids have. One little girl asked me if I was old. I smiled and said "Well, I have to check dirt to make sure it's dirt". After a moment of laughing consideration, her verdict? "You're old". We laughed, so did her classmates who heard it, and they gave me cheerful goodbyes as they walked out to their busses.
Thank you, little one, for helping to make my day go from frustrating to more cheerful!