Grey vs Gray

A question based on a memory

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Do you ever get bothered by incredibly random, inconsequential things?

I do.

And that’s exactly what happened to me, earlier today.

My mind was wandering…drifting…jumping from one unimportant thought to another. Then suddenly, I was thinking about my childhood stuffed animal, Grey Kitty, who I still own.

I began chuckling to myself, picturing his current state: virtually no fur left (thanks, anxiety), only one eye, and a loop of fabric for a tail.

Poor thing.

Suddenly, my brain jumped the track again, and began wondering…should I have spelled it “Gray Kitty” instead of “Grey Kitty”? Are those two words truly interchangeable…or should they be used differently depending on the context?

(I told you it was random!)

Now, at the time of my pondering, we were traveling home from a camping trip. I was blessed to have a nervous dog in my lap, drooling on my arm.

He was rendering me basically useless. So, I had to wait until later to look up my answer.

Unimportant or not, the “not knowing” began eating away at me.

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