THE LONG WAY HOME -- by Steve Nadis
I'm either losing my mind or felt the need for some extra exercise this morning. After walking with the kids to school this morning (about a mile--through the snow, I might add), I stopped halfway home to buy stuff for dinner. That's when I realized I still had their lunchboxes in my backpack. So I hiked back to the school to drop off the lunchboxes and came back to the store to retrieve the groceries. Then I went to the bank to do a couple of transactions, the nature of which shall remain confidential (though it did involve deposits and withdrawals). More than halfway home from the bank, I realized I'd left a bag of groceries in the bank. After retrieving that, I made it home without incident. But at that point my two-mile walk had become nearly four and I either needed a new pair of shoes or my head examined.
