I didn't get very far from my car today in the K-Mart parking lot before I noticed I didn't have my wallet. This came to my attention during the mandatory OCD pat-down that I give myself any time I exit my vehicle, my house, or a room; a quick tap of every pocket, three to four times to make sure that all is in place. The first quick, subtle tap of my right butt cheek revealed the wallet to be missing. I returned to my car, commenced my routine for "entering car as driver" and headed right back home, thankful that I don't live very far from K-Mart.
On the drive back home I got stopped by a traffic light on a stretch of road that has two lanes going South on one side of the median and two lanes going North on the other. There were two cars in front of me, sitting next to each other in the lanes going South. One had a North Carolina license plate that said "First in Flight" and the other had an Ohio license plate that said "Birthplace of Aviation". The drivers seemed oblivious to each other despite the contradicting claims that their cars made. Before I could exit my vehicle and try to get to the bottom of the situation the light turned green and we were off again, the two fathers of flight soon headed in different directions. I continued South with my California license plate; father of procrastination.
Anyway, I wondered if anyone could help me get to the bottom of this. To whom do the accolades go? NC or OH? Or is it some sort of paradox in which North Carolina was the first in flight while still allowing Ohio to become the birthplace of aviation? As a Christian I love a good paradox, but what do I know about all this flight stuff. I'm just a Florida boy from the sunshine state.
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