Are you there, God? Its me, Margaret.
Do you ever find yourself falling prey to the illogical 'must be magic' type of explanation for events that happen in your life? Like, 'We all prayed for her and she got better. God answers prayers.' or, 'Why are all of these bad things happening to me? God must be punishing me for lying about being sick on Monday.'Well, here's mine.
I sold my dog crate on Craigslist the other day (since my dog is so perfect he doesn't need one :))
I was charging $50. The woman buying it said she could come right after her church rehearsal. She stops by, hands me the money, and I help her carry the crate out to the car. When she leaves, I take the money out of my pocket and count it.
Twenty... Fourty... Five.... thats it.
$45.
So, $5 is not a big deal, and if she had asked me to take $45 for it I would have agreed. However, to just try to sneak me the wrong amount of money is irritating and underhanded, but more annoying was the fact that she is supposedly all 'churchy' and yet lowered herself to try to rip me off for $5! So, I went to bed that night shaking my head about people's hypocrisy.
The next morning, at 9am, after all of the high school, middle school, elementary school students, and all of the neighbors going to work had walked through the parking lot of my townhouse complex, I head out to go to work. What do I see sitting in the leaves on the ground right where the woman's car had been parked the night before?
A $5 bill that she had evidentally dropped in her haste to be prepared with the money when she came to my door.
The good news is, her good name is redeemed. The better news is, I am forced to curb my natural tendencies to think the worst of people (and yet I still forgive them for it unless they are totally evil, I mean we are all only human).
But, that little nagging peice of me passed on from my ancestors who attributed the seasons, the weather, the tides, the growth of plants, to 'the gods' did rear its head a bit - I mean, what are the chances that no one picked up a $5 bill lying there plain as day ? What are the chances that I would come out and see it rather then just single-mindedly walking straight to my car without looking around?
Alas, logic wins. But there was a moment!
posted by Evil Genius @ 2:34 PM
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5 Comments:
I wonder if it was a big scam; maybe your dog, the woman and all people walking by were in it together...
Oh, there have got to be better examples. Like the time I went bowling, and the ball was sort of heading for the pin, and I was like, "To the left, to the left, a little to the left", while bending my body to the left and gesticulating to the left, and the ball went just left enough to graze the pin. Proof of telekinetic abilities. Ok, the pin wobbled and didn't fall, but I wasn't trying to control the *pin* telekineticly. That was obviously God's siding with my opponent because I've been eating too many builder bars. I mean, duh.
You better lay off the builder bars! Or suffer the WRATH!!
Further proof of the importance of optimism and positivism gurlie!! :)
I won't get into the whole Is there a God discussion... too much to type, plus you know what i think about that! :)
Here's one weird thing tho that happened to me that you can comment on...
[one friday morning a few years back ... sleeping... dreaming...crazy dreaming...]
Dream: in an elevator that was full of old 70's furniture when suddenly the elevator dropped. Screaming, panic, ack!
[wake up, go to work]
Woman at work known to be a "seer" comes by my desk and tells me not to stay too late, never know what can happen, not safe, etc.
[say thanks but i'll be ok and works late]
Close up computer, leave office, call elevator to 11th floor office. Get in elevator, doors close, descend, whoosh, elevator drops 3 floors and then gets stuck!
Stuck in elevator for an hour or so, thank goodness for cell phones cuz the phone in the elevator is broke and no one is around to hear my ringing late on a friday night.
weird coincidence that the same day i dream of falling in an elevator i actually do fall in one(sans the 70s furniture!) or message from "the universe" ?
;)
random person: still skeptical; could've blown by on the wind..
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