You’ve probably been in this situation before.
You make a decision to deviate slightly from your usual trajectory at the last minute. You change your coffee routine or leave the office a little earlier. Even the smallest change in your daily routine can have a profound effect. You unexpectedly run into a long-lost acquaintance, or you come home from work early and discover that your spouse has been cheating on you. Sometimes the changes are minor, and other times they are monumental.
Something like what happened to Malissa Sergeant Lewis when she took a different route to work one day last summer. Malissa Sergeant Lewis was late for work at her elementary school in Kentucky one morning in the summer of 2016. Malissa wanted to get there faster, so she took a side road rather than the main highway. Malissa will always be grateful for her choice.
That day, the road was empty except for one thing: a trash bag. But this was no ordinary trash bag; he seemed to be alive. “I saw this trash bag on the road, and I was like, ‘Did I just see that bag move?’ The closer I got, the more I realized it was moving.”