Ever have that "ooooooh shit" moment? Today, I did...
Wake up this morning (my morning, your late afternoon) in a frenzy because I nearly overslept on meeting new photography clients to sign their wedding contract! I grab a shower real fast after sending Ella outside to use the potty. I open the back door to throw my stuff in the seat and she jumps in. OKAY - not a problem, she loves to ride. Buckle her in, put my stuff up front and off we go to meet the happy couple.
Now it's time for about a million errands. I won't bore you with the details but I spent over 3 hours driving in/around my town.
You know that car we traded in our lemon for? Well, she did just great and last night we gave her a name: Silver Bullet the Kamikazi Bunny Killer (it's an inside joke between me and Maverick). HOWEVER, I don't know if the previous people threw soda or what on the dash and ended up on the inside of the window but it was hard to see out of and so during my many errands (one of which was Wal-Mart to get gifts for Sapphire's birthday party tomorrow) I got some super duper heavy duty window cleaner.
Finally get home and I put my phone on the hood of the car, put Ella on her leash to roam around the yard and start cleaning the windows... Maverick comes home and he's starving, I'm starving, we have free food coming at us from Olive Garden from when the waitress lost my debit card (yes, you heard that right... we got a comped meal that night and a $50 gift card for later). We put Ella in her room and load our happy selves into the Bunny Killer and off we go!
It's a mad house cuz it's Friday night... Mav drops me off at the door and so I go in and get us put on the list. I go outside cuz it's super crowded in there and I go to put the beeper thingy in my pocket and realize I don't have my phone so I'm digging around my purse trying to find it (it's an iphone 6 in a defender otterbox so that didn't take long) and figure I forgot it at the house. I look up and there's this striking young man holding a pink otterbox that's nearly black on the edges from my newspaper adventures and I say "that's a cute color on you" or something like that and he's like "I found it" and I said "I think that's mine I guess it fell out when I got out of the car" and he said "actually, it was on the hood of that car" and pointed to our new ride.... and it dawns on me... and I realize how lucky I just got because my phone rode from the house to OG and DIDN'T FALL OFF!
Everything is great and we're having an awesome meal. We go to leave and I hear someone running behind me saying "lady, hey lady" and I turn around - surely not talking to me - and she's holding money out to me -- I dropped the $5 that was the change from earlier shopping out of my pocket onto the floor when I got up out of my chair...
Two complete strangers today saved my ass! And I'm very thankful for them for that. And thankful for a little bit more faith restored to the human race.
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