Life Goes On

Two days into the new year, I found myself scribbling out 2009 and replacing it with 2010. Frustrated, preoccupied, I hastily signed the check and handed it over. When the store clerk asked if that would be all I stared at her trying to understand why she would ask such a ridiculous question. But when the look on her face showed surprise at the look on mine, I shook my head and mumbled that indeed it would. Apparently just because my life was in shambles didn't mean that the rest of the world wouldn't continue to function with programmed persistence.