A Thought About Life's Embarrassing Moments

Well it was going to be a fabulous day!  It started out in the usual way...up at 4am to get ready for work and to see Jack at the hospital to give him breakfast on my way in.  It was going to be a wonderful day, I could just feel it!  Besides I had my new outfit on and my hair turned out just right.  There's nothing like great hair and a new outfit to put that bounce back in your step.  On my way out the door I noticed everyone's garbage was out on the curb, so it was back in the house, to get the key, to open up the garage, and take out the bags to the curb.  It was getting late and this was just one more thing that would slow me down. I quickly put on my coat and shoes and shot out the door. I hate being rushed in the morning. But it was alright because it was a beautiful day and nothing was going to stop me today!  Even the traffic was good!  Everything was going my way. I get to the hospital in record time and parked the car.  On my way up to Jack's room I always stop at the Country Style just inside the foyer of Centenery Hospital to buy coffee for Jack and myself.  He always loves that.  As I walked through the foyer I notice something funny about my walk that I had never noticed before.  I seemed to be walking much heavier on my right side. "Strange" I thought to myself as I could hear my heals hitting the mezzanine floor.  It even sounded funny....heavy, soft, heavy, soft, heavy, soft....It sounded like I was carrying a hippo on one side of me as I walked across the floor. "Hhmmm" I thought again, "that sounds really weird."  Didn't think another thing of it until I was sitting at Jack's bedside and I look down at my feet to see that I had two different shoes on! I almost died.

When it was time to leave I walked extra fast down the halls so that anyone seeing my feet wouldn't be able to get a close look at either one of them.  How embarrassing! It's just a good thing that I keep an extra pair of shoes at work or I would have had to go home.  What's even worse is that one of them had the zipper up the side and the other one was a slip on.  How on earth did I not notice that when I was putting them on!
That will just go to show you how exhausted I really am.  Anyway the day was down hill from there.

Sometimes a good hair day and a new outfit just isn't enough to cover over all my stupidity. I won't ever make that mistake again. But God is good and His mercies are new every morning so I'm sure tomorrow will be a better day. Hopefully I won't even remember this day and never have to talk about it again.