Mystery of Life # 1
Woman in the Middle | July 6, 2013Last night Hubby and I and one of our daughters went to the local mall. We had dinner, looked around a bit, and then crossed the parking lot to check out the book store. When we decided to leave we had quite a bit of parking lot to cross to get back to our car. Since we live in the land of the automobile, otherwise known as southern California, we didn’t have sidewalks to use. We had to walk through the parking lot, crossing parking spaces, etc… to finally arrive back to our car. It was during this journey across asphalt when I saw it. There it was, just like I have seen in so many parking lots before. It was a Q-Tip.
Maybe I am just “lucky,” but I see Q-tips scattered across parking lots everywhere I go and I don’t understand why. I buy Q-tips. I use Q-tips. But they live in my bathroom and the lengthiest journey they go on is to the back yard when one of the three women in my house is doing a little al fresco nail painting and wants to take a Q-tip along for an after painting touch up.
So it a huge mystery of life to me how these Q-tips end up in parking lots. Is there a use for Q-tips that has escaped my notice? Do people clean their ears in their cars? Are Q-tips useful in some sort of illicit drug ritual, like a straw with coke or a spoon with heroin? Should I just be pleased that people in southern California take their hygiene/grooming so seriously that they must have Q-Tips with them everywhere?
By the way, this is Mystery of Life post #1 because I just have a feeling I am going to run across more mysteries of life!
Maybe girls use them to touch up their nails in their cars.
I couldn’t even guess.
I have no idea why on earth they would be in parking lots, mine don’t leave the house but I have found them scattered around the house at times and I have wondered why why walks around with them and the just decides to leave the laying around…………..I do know it would be either Kathy, Jes or Tim to do so since it isn’t me and Natasha is never here………..
Now this is truly a mystery of life! I have never seen a Q-tip in a parking lot. On the other hand, my watches always run fast.