A smile a day - 4

 Yesterday I was going with Chiyaa to the grocery store. On the way there was a lollipop lady. A lollipop lady is someone who stands near schools to help children and their parents cross roads. Essentially she has a big sign on her hands and when she steps on the road, vehicles stop. Mind you these are small residential roads, so no one is driving at The Fast and the Furious speed. 

So the lollipop lady came in our trajectory and waved her wand. The traffic stopped. It moved again for a bit till she came again. And before she could come and do her magic again, I said " Lets get out of here before she comes again" And for some reason Chiyaa burst out laughing. And so did I :)

 

PS. A lollipop lady :)

A smile a day - 3

 Yesterday was tough. There was rather something which definitely made me sad. We used to take the services of the after school childcare during the pre-pandemic days. Yesterday we received an email from them informing us that since the demand for after school care was very less with a lot of  parents still working from home, they would be closing the services from next year. My heart went out to the lovely staff who would be rendered jobless. They were such wonderful people. I could not help but feel utterly sad for them. They would not have a Christmas to look forward to :( 

But then its a smile a day. And there was a vain fact that made me smile. The scales showed that I had dropped 400 gms.Well, its a general fluctuation am sure and not a real weight loss, but it made me smile :)

A smile a day - 2

I had my Covid vaccine booster jab booked in yesterday. I went with real excitement to get the jab and was very prepared to bear the thrilling consequences. I even enlisted the services of K, since its a special feeling to be driven to and from a vaccination centre of course! 

Stood in the queue. The person in charge came up and asked for the appointment letter. As I was showing it to him, I did feel something odd, but showed him none the less. He saw the text and said "Oh! Sorry folks, its for the 7th of December." I was like ahhh thats what looked odd to me! K and I were puzzled. Then  out of kindness he asked "May I interest you in a free flu jab?" :D Why not? He showed us a document of criteria and fortunately, we were not over 50, suffering from chronic ailments, obese or met a plethora of criteria :P 

We came back home with me still fumbling how did I get the dates wrong. And K having a good hearty laugh that was a blinking dummy I was ! I could not help laughing at my silliness either :D