Wednesday, October 15, 2008

An Existential Dilema

A man engaged me in some brief conversation on Aisle 10, as I was walking through the store. After a little bit of chit-chat he asked me, "Do you ever think about the hereafter?"

Taken a little aback by the question, but remembering that I was South of the Gnat Line where you tend to have more evangelical believers, I answered hesitantly... "Yes. I think about it."

"So do I," he replied, "at my age by the time you get down the grocery aisle, you have to think 'what is it that I'm here after!?'"

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