I was walking home last night, minding my own business, humming a little tune in my head, thinking about what I would do when I got home; dinner had been prepared and ready to be eaten — potatoes, yum! I always buy potatoes when I go to the mall, but recently some of them had started rotting before they could be used up; I don’t know why they sell such stuff…but then again maybe some water got into it, in which case it wouldn’t have been their fault. It wasn’t too cold last night, so it was quite a pleasant walk; it was late of course — I mean, I would have have caught a bus even on a pleasant day, if the option existed. The buses are good, pretty good…but there are never enough buses. Maybe that’s just human nature or something acting up in me; or maybe not — I think sometimes we blame our problems on things that cannot deny it or put up a fight. Imagine what would happen if human nature got up one day and said, “I’m sick and tired of you folks blaming me for every­thing!” It would be scary of course, but what would human nature look like anyway? So it was all dark and silent, and all of a sudden, my right shoe-lace got stuck in my left-shoe. I guess that sounds a little silly now, the way I put it? I don’t know, but at that time it was nothing short of amazing…I mean, think about it, the odds of something like that happening are almost astro­nom­ical. Odds, what a strange word! I find it hard to remember if having large odds means it’s likely to happen or if it’s the other way around. Oh, and shoe-laces! Imagine waving two pieces of rope in next to each other, and forming a knot, with thanks to the laws of proba­bility. One in a million, I would say. Or a zillion. Pick a high enough number; when you’re not sure, you might as well pick a high number that gives you some satis­fac­tion. It took me a good five minutes to untie it too — I couldn’t walk home with shackled feet!

And then I was home.

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