Students - every time I go to the grocery store, I look at other people's groceries. This is a nosy habit. When I stand in line, placing my own items on the conveyor belt, I wonder about the people ahead of me and behind me in line: Does he live alone? Why is that lady buying ten bottles of ginger ale? I wonder who has a cough? How did they get so healthy? What kind of party is that family having? Who is the rose for?
This is something I've thought about for years and think about weekly, each time I shop, just imagining about the people around me each day. Such wonderings, got me started on this poem. I took one wondering and then asked, What if? (What if I worked in a grocery store?) What do you frequently wonder about? What might you turn into a What if? Do you have any embarrassing nosy habits that you could write about?
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