It was one September Saturday late afternoon I found myself at Sam's Club. I really didn't really want to be there. After exercising at the RAC, I was tired and really wanted to go home. But knowing that we ran out of orange juice, I forced myself to be there for a quick trip. As I got close to the grocery aisle, I ran into a friend. She looked a bit harried and was pushing a shopping cart with her two young boys riding in it.
Running into someone you know shopping is not that amazing, but this is different. This was a close friend who happened to have accepted my invitation to my retirement open house party the previous Saturday but did not come.
"Why didn't you come to my party?" I asked her accusingly. Being a close friend, I knew I could kid her. And it was an open house, a no show was really not a big deal.
Her response surprised me, "Why aren't you at your party now?
As we looked at each other, we immediately understood what happened. She got the date wrong by one week. In fact, she and her kids, after shopping at Sam's, were on their way to my house.
We both realized too that if we had not run into each other at Sam's, she and her family would have shown up at my house. And her kids, all excited with the visit, would have been totally disappointed that after all the anticipation there really was no party.
But we were spared of that disappointment. So was it just luck? Or, is there a larger scheme at work that synchronizes human affairs? What do you think?
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