"So what is a paradox?" he asked

A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition.

Just had something happen this morning that made an impact on my entire day...in a good way, for a change. So easy, so simple....but it happened.

I've had this terrible cough and cold for a week and a half and I suppose I've not gotten the appropriate sympathy. Everyone has a cold and could care not that I do. I'm not sleeping for the coughing, even with NyQuil. So when I got up this morning to go to work, I decided to forgo the Residence Inn eggs and sausage (yes we have mentally checked out, as Steve said this afternoon). I decided to pull through Chik Fila for their chik-n-minis, a great breakfast that Rachel introduced me to a few years back.

A simple thing that usually consists of yelling your order into a box, pulling up in the line and exchanging money for the food and getting maybe a random "thank you, have a nice day."

But not today....when I pulled up an older gentleman was working the window and asked me how my morning had been so far. Pretty bad, but because he was so sweet, I didn't want to give him the whole story. While waiting on the girl to go retrieve my iced tea, he said..."do you know what a paradox is?" I said yes, it's something that means one thing but appears to be something else. A vague, but passable answer. He said "No, it's two doctors." He made me laugh. So silly. But I laughed on a rainy Monday morning. He also had another joke that was equally bad, but I have forgotten it now.

I pulled away feeling a little better about my day and the potential that it might hold for improvement.

And this guy was able to find happiness working a window in a fast food restaurant making probably not much above minimum wage. Now THAT is a paradox. There's a lesson to be learned here, grasshopper.