Story 4:
I was in a foreign airport, running late, and just missed the damn train — like the sliding door slammed on my foot. Had to wait 10 minutes for the next one. Got chatting to a girl. Now married for 6 years.
Story 5:
Today, when I went outside, I immediately noticed an old lady who was calling for someone. I approached her, “Hello, have you lost someone?” “Yes, my dog. Her name is Lina.” Well, how could I not help?
The 2 of us walked around the area, but couldn’t find the dog. I offered to print and place posters. We went upstairs, she gave me a photo of the dog and I went to the copy center. I put up posters on every doorway, and then I heard barking behind me — that’s when Lina was found, I guess she saw the poster that she was lost.
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Story 7:
Found £160 in cash on a river bank, while I was discussing how I was too broke to afford a festival ticket with my girlfriend at the time. No idea how it got on the river bank, far away from the town. River bank is the wrong kind of bank to deposit your cash.
Story 8:
I went on holiday with my husband to a faraway land, checked into a small but very nice hotel overlooking the ocean. The first night we met a nice older couple at the hotel. Toward the end of our conversation, we found out that they were the owners of the place and offered us to move into the suite that was available.
We thought there was a trick, and it’s not for free, but the evening before departure, when the owners came to say goodbye to us, they said that we reminded them very much of themselves in their youth. I came back from holiday pregnant, so I don’t even know when we’ll be able to visit them again.
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Story 10:
My husband and I were on a plane, and we were given the aisle seats in the middle part of 5 seats, and also in different rows. Well, it’s a 4-hour flight, we’ll get by without each other. Then a guy from my husband’s row comes up to me and asks to change seats. I agree, we sit separately anyway, what’s the difference.
So, my husband is on the outer left side now, and I am on the right side. There are 3 empty seats between us. And you know what? Nobody was seated in them! So, we raised the armrests and lied down there, just the two of us!
Story 11:
My mother gave me a very nice necklace. One morning I went to scratch my neck and I didn’t feel it. I guess I didn’t put the latch on properly, and it fell off, so I got super bummed out because it was really nice.
A few hours later, I found it in my shoe. It fell down my shirt, down my pants (with a belt), and into my left shoe, which had been tightly laced.
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Story 13:
Applied for a job that was way out of my league and the pay was more than twice what I was making at the time, and included pension, full benefits, all that good stuff. I showed up quite early for the interview, and had some time to kill, so I sat in the lobby reading some industry magazines.
One article was about the top 10 threats to this industry, which I made a point of reading and soaking in as much as I could. Eventually I get called into the interview, and everything is going okay for the most part. This industry and role are both new to me, and I think it may have shown during the interview as a weak spot, but then I get asked, “What do you see as potential issues within our industry/business.”
I was so excited I almost jumped out of the seat, and went off in great detail about everything I had just learned. The interviewers were very impressed, and little did they know that had I been asked that exact same question just 30 minutes earlier, I would have had nearly nothing to say. I got the job.
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Story 15:
Many years ago I was totally broke, even working 2 jobs. I would eat macaroni and hotdogs or tuna every night. I couldn’t afford to put gas in my car, so I’d walk to my job.
One evening, while walking home in the dark around 11:00 p.m, I saw a $50 bill on the snow. After picking it up, my immediate thought was I could buy groceries, but there was thought that another person might be as broke as me who lost the money. So I stood in a field for an hour freezing thinking the person who lost the money would come looking for it, but they never did.
I can’t begin to tell you how much finding the $50 impacted me. Not only could I eat but put gas in my car. It seemed my life changed at that moment, which it did. It changed my thoughts, I had chances to succeed, which happened.
