Maybe a nothing story, but one I’ll share all the same. Somehow the observation spoke to me.

I pulled into a local strip mall recently, it was a weekday afternoon. I was off work. I was there to get some shipping supplies.

I noticed a guy with a ponytail walking out of a tuxedo place, tuxedo bag slung over his shoulder.

I rolled on, parked, went into the store to take care of business. When I walked out, I noticed the ping-tail guy sitting at an outdoor table at an Italian joint in the mall.

It was like 4 o’clock in the afternoon.

I thought to myself, what a leisurely life that guy must have… Picking up his tuxedo on a weekday afternoon, then stopping to get a bite to eat at Italian restaurant… I thought, “What about working?“

Of course as noted, I had taken the day off, this guy could very well have done the same.

I had this idea, though, this carefree attitude, of a guy walking out of a local establishment, seeing an Italian joint, thinking, “ I’m hungry, I’m gonna get an early dinner…”

I think it was the (not necessarily correctly founded) idea that this guy with the pony-tail was having a meal on a whim at a place he just came across…

Yea. That’s what spoke to me.