While checking out the winning lottery numbers in todays paper, uttering that same chant, "please, please, luck find me", an article next to the numbers grabbed my attention.
"Tainted Jars of Peanut Butter being recalled" The article explains that 300 people have been stricken with salmonella poisoning from tainted jars of Peanut Butter. Jars beginning with the number 2111......
I made a dash for the pantry cabinet, picked up a recently purchased jar and read the numbers 2111.....Wow, I've got one! A jar of peanut butter loaded with salmonella!!
At that moment my wife entered the kitchen....."we win the lotto or do I have to go to work today?" she asked with her sacastic chime. "While we didn't win the lottery, we do have a tainted jar Peanut Butter" I proudly replied. "Well, that figures" she continued with the sarcastic chime...."you can't pick the winning lottery numbers but you can pick the jar with tainted peanut butter...whoopie!"
"Well, look at it this way....we could of had made that Thai salad with Spicey peanut Dressing last night and today...we both would not have been going to work!"
Luck....we all get it, not just in the way we want it!
Marc :)
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16 comments:
Marc in it's own way I suppose it was Lucky you saw that article warning you of the recall ~ and you hadn't made that Thai salad better luck with you next lottery ticket ~ Ally
Keeping my fingers crossed for you and the lottery ... we too had a jar labeled 2111. Oh well.
It's all the way you look at things.
If it wasn't for the lottery, you wouldn't have seen the recall.
You truly are lucky! And the "Mrs" is too....because she has you~
; )
Have a great day Marc!
Marie
Happy you found it that way instead of the hard way. ~ Mike
Love the last line....cute yet profound!
Nancy
It's all about perspective, isn't it? ::smiling:: I'm just glad you aren't ill! Have a happy, healthy weekend!
Michelle
Hi Marc
my first time here you got me smiling
~ Marina
Life is all about the way we look at things isn't it? Hmmm, I'm suddenly craving some Thai food ;-)
Always great to hear from you Marc!
Close call. Consider yourself lucky you did eat any!
Have a great day!
Ellen
Oops, I meant to say that you DIDNT eat any!
Gotta get that coffee going.
Ellen
Amazing how things turn out. I like your optimism. :)
http://journals.aol.com/mrsm711/LatteDah/ Tracy
Hey, I'm ready to down a whole jar of that stuff if I have to see one more "news" item about Anna Nicole...
What a beautiful journal you have. I guess we are always hoping for some big luck to find us, but I think I appreciate the small graces that I come across everyday more (not to say I wouldn't mind something really big & great to happen!)
Karen
Speak of luck I had one of the jars and had used it as well. Fortunately nothing came of it. When I learned about it, off in the trash it went. Now those are scarey days when you end up with something in your peanut butter (winks) Indigo
Thanks for stopping by my photo journal...
Stacy
I would consider your discovery of tainted Peanut Butter, before you ate it, extremely good luck. Salmonella poisoning is one nasty, vile bug!!!!!!!!!!
In fact, I think I would rather go to work then get that. The only get out of work sickness is a good old fashioned mild cold. Now thats a winning ticket :o)
Rebecca
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