This What The Heck Moment Brought to You by Marlboro

So I’m running at lunch yesterday in the bright midday sun, minding my own business when a passing car slows down in the lane nearest to me. An elderly woman in the passenger seat who looked as if she could barely sit up and draw a breath, pulls the cigarette from her mouth and crabbily says to me, “Watch after those knees.”

My initial reaction was to shout, “Thanks. Watch after those lungs! And that heart! And your skin!” But I didn’t. Only because God performed some kind of miracle right then and there that was the equivalent of parting the Red Sea. Seriously, what the heck?!!