LAFOLOT

Did you miss your present? hmm?

I was behind a well dressed business woman in a checkout line at a Dollar Store. I looked down and noticed a KEY in the bottom of an empty store-hand basket near her feet. I said: ‘Excuse me? Is that your key?’

No response. I said a little louder: ‘Excuse me? Is that your key?’ [she was INTENTLY Texting someone on her mobile device.] She finally CAME TO – for a BRIEF second to say: ‘WHUH?’ I repeated my question, again – she mumbled ‘neh’ and went back to her texting.

Then, the well-dressed business woman in front of her, just having finished paying for HER purchases echoed: ‘Whuh?’ Her friend didn’t even hear her – and mindlessly walked out behind her, leaving the store.

I was a bit ‘concerned’ that they would both be going out to get into a vehicle and drive! No alcohol, no food, just mental FOG and totally unware of THEIR PRESENT!

[I have a 63 yr old sister who was hit by a drunk driver when she was 19 - she is permanently front left lobe brain damaged as a result. She is now in a nursing home and I'm her representative. So my concern is not a light one.]

I have been marketing myself as well as making the effort to SPREAD SMILES BY THE MILES to rush hour traffic – placing signs out in front of a friend’s restaurant that read: ‘FREE Smiles & Laughs Drive-thru!’

or my other effort: MOTOR-VATION with another sign that read – ‘*Smile! YOU’RE GREAT!’

As I sit or stand along the road – I am AMAZED at the amount of Totally NON-PRESENT drivers going by! Not just from Texting, Cell Phone talking-but from staring off into space etc. [yes, I am guilty of the day dreaming, myself.]

- I found a quarter under a chair at a restaurant today!
- I saw a cloud in the sky yesterday, shaped like a ‘V’ for victory!
- I saw a ‘cloud-like’ X-shape in the sky last week – the residue of two jet paths having crossed one another. It was comical – X marked the spot of the restaurant I had gone to!

- I found a dime on the floor of my hairstylist’s salon a few weeks ago.

I play a smile game where I just look at people with a closed-mouth smile and give myself a point if they return the smile.

I watched a teenage boy talking to his mother in the lobby-waiting area of a restaurant the other week. His mother was focused on her mobile device – reading and texting. The TEENAGER was Talking Away to his mother – and all that came from her was an occassional: ‘Whuh?’ ‘Huh?’ How many parents would be THRILLED to have their teen wanting to talk to them? I watched in amazement!

When walking to my mailbox the other day, I found a beautiful bird feather. I picked it up and saved it! When I was conducting my MOTOR-VATION event, today – I found a TULIP TREE leaf on the ground next to my chair! What a find! I picked it up and saved it!

All these PRESENTs I receive in Smiles, Waves, Beeps, Acknowledgements, and the little GIFTS God, Spirit, the Universe lay across my path as I walk out and about are PRICELESS!

How many PRESENTS did you miss today by not being PRESENT?

I SAID – HOW MANY PRESENTS DID YOU MISS TODAY BY NOT BEING PRESENT!? [this line was just for effect - as a reader - I can tell you are very present..]

THANK YOU for your gift of reading my blog(s) – YOU are APPRECIATED!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
www.lafolot.com
Living in the moment …
Living in A-MAZE-ment
Live Life! Laugh Often!

Still DRIVING MYSELF HAPPY! with my new campaign! [Drive Youself Happy!]

I see so many UNFOCUSED people on the road, on cell phones, texting, exhausted and sitting at traffic lights with a ‘far off’ look –

I have an oldest sister who was hit by an ‘unfocused’ drunk driver when she was 20 and she is now 62 – having ‘survived’ and having to ‘learn to LIVE with front left lobe brain damage.

Put your cell phone, etc. on mute and toss it in the back seat of your car where you can’t get to it while driving.

Help others to stay focused on the vehicle in front of them by checking out the license plate in front of them in traffic; as well as at stop lights.

For example:

While pulling into a shopping plaza parking lot – the license plate on the car in front of me was ….

*drum roll (just put the rim shot in after you read this)

PMS-RN

OK – so does this mean to STAY CLEAR because this nurse is prone to emotional explosions? – - or that this nurse will help those in the middle of an emergency emotional explosion –

OH! Maybe this nurse makes house calls or roadside emergencies for emotional explosions!? (my mom had two cute, attentive male nurses at an Emergency Room visit last Tuesday – so I wouldn’t have minded a cute, male nurse helping me out when I –

would make a Mount Saint Helen’s Explosion fool of myself with my PMS moments!

Thank God this nurse advertises! You never know when you’ll need a PMS RN!

Nurses – they GIVE, AND THEY GIVE AND THEY GIVE!

(After that one, the next plate I saw was: HHA (HAHA :O) ) and after that I saw: DDY (Daddy?) – *SMILE – my Dad is the one that got me STARTED on this license plate word game when I was younger- so that was a nice memory).

DRIVING MYSELF HAPPY! and staying focused on the car in front of me.

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of Lafolot
www.lafolot.com
[Check out some license plates to help keep your eyes focused on the car in front of you. ;o) Drive safely and happily! Join my DRIVE YOURSELF HAPPY! campaign!] … no cost and no paperwork!

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