Monday Visions on the Rearview Mirror of a Car

Another Monday driving to work… I took different a route just to change to scenery.  I’m lucky to have the opportunity to change the roads I drive in; yet wind up in the same place…

         Anyway, as I stopped at a traffic light, I looked at the rearview mirror.  There was a red Toyota SUV of some type or other.  In the Toyota was a middle-aged guy, little chubby, hunched over the wheel of his car.  He did not look happy. I wondered what his life was like. 

          Sitting next to him was a young girl.  She was about 12 years old.  The man, whom I assumed to be her father, did not look at her or otherwise speak to her.  It was then that I noticed that she had earphones on as she began to slightly shake her head to some music or other… She had a cherubic little smile on her chubby cheeks as she ever so slightly swayed…

          The vision in the mirror changed completely… Only a happy family can make a child feel like that.  The guy was no longer an angry-faced driver… but a Dad driving his kids to school… the grimace was but a moment in time…

        The light turned green and I drove away.  I was so happy that the young girl was not being yelled at, but was happily listening to music even with her grumpy-looking Dad…

It was a very nice day…

True story

By:  Homeless with a Laptop, That is my Name
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