The Man with One Arm
This morning after mass I stopped at our local Quiktrip convenience store. I didn’t need anything, but I thought I’d grab a coke and a bag of chips, and put a dollar down on the Mega Millions Game, which has a $96 million jackpot right now. So basically I wanted to blow three bucks on junk food and a fantasy. Nothing wrong with that, right?
So I get out of the car and standing right in front of me is a fellow that looked to be about my age, skinny and grizzled, in jeans and a white t-shirt. The left sleeve of his shirt hung empty. I made fleeting eye contact with him and we nodded at one another, and then I went into the store. (more…)
