Sometimes you don't know

Don’t hide your knowledge gaps. Put them out there so you can fill them.

I took this one.

“What do you mean it’s closed?”

My mother stood air fried on the sidewalk in front of a man in a gray shirt. She appeared to any passerby like a child whose bright red balloon had just been popped. Standing there with only an empty stick, I dare say that tears were imminent. 

The man repeated himself with the addition of “I’m sorry,” to th…