Just In Case

Hello,

Just in case weighs me down holding me to the earth so I cannot fly high.

I have three pair of old glasses that are not my current prescription and will be even farther from the next when I get those new lenses. But I keep them, just in case I might need them.

We have dishes that we used to use, but have not for the last five years and they sit in boxes unused. But I keep them just in case we move to a place with a dish washer and would need more dishes to fill the dishwasher.

Turtlenecks from the nineties sit in my dresser drawer unworn this last year. But I keep them just in case I might be caught short and need to wear one of those past favorites. I have relegated some tops to the round home pile and have worn them once again.

I keep shaking and cleaning the black printer cartridge just in case I can get another page out of it. Leroy has been talking for some time about getting a new one. I dislike getting another because we do not print so very much. It dries up rather than being used up which goes against my standard of excellence.

Headache medicine sits in the medicine cabinet just in case we might get a headache even though this has not happened for five or more years.

Organ music rests in the cabinet just in case we might move somewhere that requires me to play once again. But it has not been used much for almost ten years.

A few books sit at my house to be read just in case we cannot go to the library. But now Leroy gets an eBook without leaving his chair if he is in need.

Just in case I might need it has long tentacles.

Paula