You’ve probably been in this situation before. You make a decision to slightly deviate from your usual route at the last minute. You change your coffee routine or leave a bit earlier for work.The slightest 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 partner has cheated on you. Sometimes, the changes are minor, and other times, they are monumental.
Something like this happened to Malissa Sergent Lewis when she took a different route to work one day last summer. Malissa Sergent Lewis was running late to get to her elementary school job in Kentucky one summer morning in 2016. Malissa wanted to get there faster, so she took a back road instead of the main highway.Malissa will always be grateful for her choice. That day, the road was empty, except for one thing: a garbage bag. But it wasn’t an ordinary garbage bag; it seemed to be alive. “I saw this garbage bag on the road, and I thought, ‘Did I just see that bag move?’ The closer I got, the more I realized it was moving