Jun 7, 2019
Incidental Events: Luck Happens
There comes a time when we wonder if we will ever put it all together. We learn this, we learn that, things happen, we gain a spot of experience, mix that with everything else and sit it on the shelf of life never sure if any of it will mean anything. But now and then something happens to tell us it all matters even if we are seldom shown how. Maybe we remember it's better to say this than that... go left instead of right, and maybe we will never know what choice will save the moment, it just seems like the right thing to do, or not do, at the moment. It says to us: Trust yourself, you know what is right. And there are other times when fate just starts to laugh and says: 'Okay... this broad deserves a break.'
I had been living on a streak of luck I could hardly believe. I worked good jobs and had met and married a wonderful guy. He had lived a good, loving, steady, life with everything in it just as it should be with good parents, education and a great job for a wonderful company. But he married a woman (me) who had lived a life that sounded like fiction, a divorced woman with two half grown kids, an ugly dog and a car that was never paid for. He had never even heard of what she talked about let alone ever experienced it. But she (me) was also very honest, kind, funny, smart...and she (me) was a good cook, and a practical person who knew how to stretch a dollar further than anyone could imagine. My new husband went from living in a duplex and driving a crummy car, to owning a nice home, a new pick-up, an interesting wife, two kids, two dogs (yes he got his own to go with my ugly one), and money left over every pay day!
One of my jobs had been working as a Police Matron which meant I ran the police office during my 8 hour shift. I took all emergency calls, dispatched city, county and state police officers, blew the fire whistle and dispatched the fire trucks for three towns, searched and booked prisoners, and the list goes on, but the point is I knew everyone in town on both sides of the legal fence. And... one of them was a State Cop. He was quiet, serious, gentle and kind, but the joke in the office was that he would arrest his Mother for J-walking, and I am pretty sure we were correct. He was a 'by the book' person, and the event on the way shows how many things go full circle in our lives. It teaches us to be careful! You never know when 'it' will happen!
One of my practical, money saving chores was hauling our own garbage instead of paying someone else to do it. I mean we had a good pickup truck, two able bodied people who were more than capable of loading the truck and driving to the dump, so why pay anyone else? I kind of enjoyed it. All the garbage got stacked behind the laundry shed and when it got too big one of us loaded the truck, tied things down, and drove about 7 miles to the dump. About four of those miles were on the narrow, two lane road that ran along side a large river as it was leaving town. There were no turn offs and the side of the road was almost too narrow to pull over with large ditches on both sides! Everyone just had to pay attention! It was the way most roads were in that isolated coastal area with the ocean on one side, the coastal range of mountains on the other, and rivers running through all of it. Beautiful, but all of us knew there was no room for mistakes. One year a person ran off the road ending up in a large patch of blackberry bushes next to the river completely hidden. His car, and body, were found three years later. The fact that there was no room for mistakes helped us tie down the garbage and be attentive to all details to avoid mistakes... or so I thought.
One day I loaded the pickup, shuffled stuff around, tied it here and tied it there making sure it was stable, grabbed my purse and got on the road to the dump. I was on that narrow 4 mile-leaving-town patch of road when something in the large driver side mirror caught my eye. It was a large sheet of newspaper flying out of the back of my truck that landed completely ON the windshield of the car behind me! I was devastated! Even though there was virtually no room to pull over I did as much as possible while slowing down and turning on the emergency flashers. As I pulled over and looked out the side mirror I saw a hand come out of the drivers window of the car grabbing the paper off of the windshield.....of a State Cop Car! THE State- arrest-his-mother cop car! I could not help it, I started to laugh. I howled, smacking my hands on the steering wheel laughing so hard I could hardly breath. He walked up to my window.
"Can you believe this??" I shrieked! "Out of all the cars in the world that newspaper hit yours!!" I was pounding on the steering wheel laughing so hysterically he stood at my window staring at the ground trying his best to stay serious, but no one could pass up one of the funniest moments that anyone could imagine. He hung his head down to cover his face and started to laugh. "I am SO sorry!" I bellowed and laughed. "I tied that stuff down, but Nooo! What does that tell ya about my luck!? I will clean up as many miles as you want, tell me what you want me to do! I am as dumb as a stump!" He could not help it, he couldn't stop laughing....
"Pull up to the next road and turn off," he coughed, "we have to get off the side of this road." I drove as slow and careful as possible just a couple hundred feet to the road to the dump, turned off and pulled over on a wide spot. I knew I was not supposed to, but I got out of the truck and continued laughing as I began looking at the load in the back of the truck! "He" pulled up and parked behind me...walked up and didn't say anything, still staring at the ground. I could tell he really was not totally sure what to do! I knew it was time to pull the Ace I had up my sleeve.
" I don't think you remember me," I laughed, " I was the police matron in town for a year, and you were one of my favorite people to deal with! Can you believe what just happened!?? It could have killed someone! You see I have rope all over the place! I just cannot believe this!" Mr Cop started to laugh.. He could not resist my humor or the fact I had been on his side of the cop fence. We stood there leaning on the hood of my truck and relaxed, talked, laughed, and swapped cop stories..
Before too long he said: "Well, I can't give you a ticket," he grinned. " You know what happened was bad but you don't really need punishment. I see everything was done correctly, it was just a freak accident...but one I will never forget either!"
"In retrospect," I grinned, "it was good you were the one the newspaper hit. You knew what to do and no one was hurt. I think fate put you behind me for a reason. I have to say a sincere thank you, sir."
He grinned, looked at the ground and said: "Go to the dump". The scene was over. I had been granted a chunk of luck beyond imagination. From that moment on the garbage was tied down so well I could have driven upside down and not lost a straw.
See, luck is what we make of it. Good intentions and honesty might not always pay off, but fate brings things around, and around. The bad times help us learn we are a lot stronger than we think, and helps us recognize a good moment when it happens. Tie it down friends, and hope for the best..:)
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