Reader's Digest Asia Pacific

Too Little, Too Late

- SUBMITTED BY JENNIFER PAULY

I was in the supermarke­t one morning, carefully picking through the red capsicums, when over the intercom a recorded voice loudly announced that day’s specials. It ended by cheerfully imploring, “Have a great day!”

An older man by the cucumbers mumbled, “Too late for that.”

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