Secrets

The other night my sister asked me to pick up a few things for dinner on my way home. Since it was just a few items and it didn't matter to me if I paid $1.29 or $1.49 for a head of lettuce, I just stopped at Champagne's--a local grocery store (pronounced Sham-pines, for all of you who aren't from South Louisiana). I made my selections and arrived at the check-out counter, debit card in hand. As the cashier finished scanning the items, I slid my card through the little debit card machine and a funny thing happened. The machine asked me for my "Secret" code. I didn't know what it was talking about for a second and then I realized that it was refering to my PIN! I just think that's so funny--my "secret" code.

It made me wish that I had more secrets in my life! I realize the importance of keeping my PIN confidential and very few people are privy to that very important information, but it just sounds so much more exciting to call it a SECRET code. Sometimes I feel like my whole life is an open book. I wish I could be more mysterious. I have decided that, even if my life isn't mysterious, I can make it sound more so! So now my plans will be SECRET plans. My passwords will be SECRET codes. My normal, everyday conversations will be PRIVATE conversations. I think most of what is truly secret in the world is probably not that extraordinary. It simply sounds exciting because, by labeling it a secret, you're telling a majority of people that THEY don't get to know it! Obscurity always lends an air of mystery. So, I'm off to be mysterious. . . and who knows where I'll end up! ha!