It started with the iced tea.

I ordered unsweetened iced tea with lemon at a McDonald’s when driving home from picking up my daughter in Oregon a few weeks ago. We waited in the drive-thru line for longer than you want to wait at McDonald’s. After we finally got our drinks, I took a sip and immediately had to park the car and go back inside. Because it was not unsweetened tea with lemon. It was terrible sweet tea. So I trudged inside, and since all the workers at the counter were busy, I walked back to the drink area, dumped out the sweet tea, refilled my cup with blessed unsweetened tea, and headed back to the car without saying anything to anybody. I hope they didn’t think that I was stealing tea. But nobody should ever have to drink that sweet stuff unless they order it.

It was not the first time that this had happened to me at a McDonald’s, and I normally wouldn’t have thought much about it. But in retrospect, it was the beginning of a series of strange events that have occurred with regularity these last weeks.

I ordered a book from eBay, which is also something that I’ve done many times. I was so excited to finally read it! When it arrived, I opened it, and it was the wrong one.

I needed my doctor to send a referral to a specialist in Roseville (time to get my hearing tested). The specialist’s office never called me. I finally called them and they said they had never received the referral. I emailed the doctor again, and she said that she had sent one, and guess what? I found the spot on the on-line portal where it showed referrals, and she was right. But I had to call the specialist’s office again and have it resent before I was finally able to make an appointment.

I have two pairs of denim capris. They are different brands. I like wearing both of these, very much. But for some reason, only one pair ever shows up in my closet at the same time. At the beginning of the summer, I could not find my Lee capris, but my Sonoma ones were present and accounted for. Something happened a few weeks ago, though, and the Sonoma capris disappeared. Really. They are gone! But guess what? The Lee capris are back. Continue Reading…