I had to euthanize my eldest cat a couple of days ago. I’d taken her to the ER Vet, thinking she’d get a checkup, medicine, and go home. Nope, massive cancer in her chest squishing her heart and lungs. I had to say goodbye then to prevent her from a painful death. It was a cry fest of a weekend. Cotton and I miss her the most, and the other cats wore themselves out trying to comfort us.

It’s a Monday, and I’m a mess. My roommate Nickey said I have to go take a nap. But it’s a funny mess.

Our back to back to back to back work client meetings helped me a lot today to not dwell on Merry. Words escaped me, but my colleague Theresa filled in when I completely and utterly forgot what I was talking about in the middle of a sentence. Repeatedly.

I was going to talk with Nickey after those calls and then go back to work for a bit. NOPE!!!

I had placed a home delivery from Walmart to the house. Then I get a call while I’m talking with Nickey from a guy who says he’s the driver for the order.

He said, “You don’t live or work at the post office, do you?”

I said, “No, why?”

He said, ” The delivery address is to the local post office.”

Sucking in of air.

Silence.

Me, “I am SO Sorry! I can’t believe I did that!!!”

I rattled off my address and apologized repeatedly. 20 minutes later, he’s at the door of my home. I could barely talk because Nickey and I had been belly laughing since I’d hung up the phone with him.

He said Walmart told him to bring it back to the store, but he thought that was silly, since I’m so near the store ,and I’d given him the address.

I went into the app and more than doubled his tip. Then I got on a chat on Walmart and made sure they knew the driver went above and beyond. He didn’t have to do that, but he did so with kindness.

Now I’m laying down as instructed. I’m still giggling from my batty mistake. Maybe tomorrow will be less odd. (Ha, ha, ha!!!)

Moral of the story: Laughter is healing. Apparently, I needed a good laugh, and that guy needed a better tip. Sometimes, mistakes aren’t the end of the world. And they make for good storytelling.