5Ws Wednesday
When I was a kid, my best friend and I had a thing about asking “What if…” questions. We would never answer the questions, they were more for us to giggle over as we imagined what would happen. For example, “What if you were getting ready to take a shower and you had already gotten undressed and when you stepped into the shower, you fell and then you couldn’t get up?” The horror being that you were naked and couldn’t move to get your clothes on before calling for help. These were all scenarios that would have been deeply embarrassing.
We didn’t write these down or anything. If we thought of one, we’d just randomly say it out loud, giggle and move on. We stopped doing that when I moved from Georgia to North Carolina. There was no more casual hanging out after that.
In the spirit of those “what if” questions, I think there can be an adult version of this little game.
The ones I can think of actually happened to me. For example: What if you forget to take your cell phone with you when you leave the house and you get a flat tire? (Granted, I know how to change a tire, I just never have done it because Josh was always a phone call away. Except for the time I hopped a curb and popped a tire. With my cell phone at home. I had to go into a restaurant and ask to use the phone).
Or…what if you’re at the drive-thru and they forgot something in your order and you have to go in to get what they missed, but you’re not wearing a bra? (In that case, I drove home without my extra order of Bo-rounds from Bojangles. I was mad, but I was not going in there without a bra on).
I’m sure there are many more I could think of. I guarantee I will have done at least half of them. I’m an awkward adult like that.
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