After a shopping excursion to the mall the other day, we decided to stop at the grocery store on the way home to pick up some stuff to make dinner. Because it was unexpected, I didn't have the list from the pad on the refrigerator where I write things down as we run out of them. I knew there were only four things on there, though, so I felt reasonably confident that I would remember them all. I recited the list to myself as I ran in alone, leaving Neil and Sophie in the car.
I wandered through the store, picking up the ingredients I needed to make dinner, grabbing those things from the list as I went. As I picked up the last thing I needed for dinner, I realized that I had only found three of the four things from my list. Try as I might, though, I couldn't remember what that last item was. I walked slowly down one of the aisles, waiting for my memory to return. Approaching the registers, I resigned myself to not getting the last mystery item.
But then, on the middle shelf, in front of the ziploc bags, sat a lone bottle of olive oil. Out of place, on an aisle I had wandered down completely by chance, sat the last thing I needed.
Was it luck? A simple twist of fate. Am I reading too much into it? I'm not a religious person, so I balk at ascribing supernatural symbolism, but this is just one in a long line of these sorts of occurrences for me. I can't help but think they're not ALL just crazy coincidences.
Maybe I have a fairy godmother.
If she's listening, I wouldn't mind being directed to a winning lottery ticket, thankyouverymuch!
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Monday, April 5, 2010
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Don't you just love it when something you just can't explain happens like that? And if you're directed to a lottery ticket, please pick up an extra 1 for me. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I love it when things like that happens in good ways!
ReplyDeleteThat's great!
ReplyDeleteBrad has this funny theory that all he has to do is say "where is it?!" out loud and the thing he's looking for will magically appear.
I used to laugh, but it works every time.
Bippity boppity boo! Send that fairy godmother love my way, will you?? =>
ReplyDeleteAfter she helps you to your winning ticket, would you rent her to me?
ReplyDeleteOh, come on, that was TOTALLY God giving you a little gift, letting you know He's there.... :)
ReplyDeleteEven if I'm going into the store for 2 items, I will invariably forget one of them (but end up with 15 other things). I ALWAYS have to have a list!
ReplyDeleteNICE. :)
ReplyDeleteI love it when those little things, that just I need, pop out and make themselves known! You definitely have someone looking out for you!
ReplyDeleteFate, for sure!
ReplyDeleteLove it when that happens. I can't seem to get out the any grocery store spending less than $20! I need to start doing this crazy couponing thing.
ReplyDeleteWonderful that you were able to remember that last item on your list. Making something like that happen is such a rarity in my life. I need your fairy godmother!
ReplyDeleteI think there's no such thing as a coincidence. Everything happens for a reason, I say! :) Life is just TOO random for it to be actually random!
ReplyDeleteCan I pls borrow your fairy godmother, mine's acting up?!
xx
I love it when the universe cooperates with me! More than coincidence, I think!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like most of my shopping trips!!
ReplyDeleteAngels, karma, fate, whatever... it's these types of moments that give you that silly, joyful feeling, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a crazy piece of information that slaps us from time to time letting us know there's more to life than...life. Or living. or something. ;O) I LOVVVVVVVVE these kinds of little stories!
ReplyDeleteFunny how things work out sometimes;)
ReplyDeleteI am not religious either but I am convinced if you pay attention and are a good person, seemingly unrelated things come together conspiring to help you.
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