January 07, 2003

Routine

On the day that she died Sally spent a full fifteen minutes tying her shoelaces. Recently she had developed this thing where she had to get them just right before she could go outside and so she retied the left one three times and the right one eight times before she felt that they were even in tightness and overall comfort. She then stood up, grabbed her bag, threw it over her shoulder, and walked out the door - this shoe business being the last item in her routine.

January 7, 2003 09:26 PM