1) I headed out this morning to the post office. While filling something out at one of those stand-up counter things, a guy walking by asked if they had a UPS box there. I told him they only had a FedEx box, but he would have better luck if he tracked down one of those Mailboxes, Etc type places. He thanked me and away he went.
2) From there, I went to the gas station and before I left, a gentleman pulled in and asked me for directions. I gave him my best approximation, he thanked me and drove off.
3) I dropped by the library, so that I could make some photocopies of a bunch of forms. While I was at the copier, a lady came up next to me and was trying to figure out the "sign up for a computer" computer and confused by it, she asked me for help. I showed her how to do it, she thanked me profusely and wandered off to find her assigned computer.
4) Moments later, another woman walked up on the other side of me to use the computer printer station, which prints from the copier that I was using. Not knowing how to do it, she just went ahead and released her big print job and used up all of my copier money in the process. Realizing her mistake, she apologized immediately and I just explained how she could go ahead and feed her money into the change accepter for my copies and we'd be just fine. She thanked me and left.
5) Next stop was a government office, which is where I had to drop off those copies that I was making. On my way into the building, a woman asked me how to get to the office she needed. Then again on my way out of the building, another woman asked me how to get to a different office. They both thanked me and went on their way, too.
6) Next stop was the grocery store. At check-out, my Indian cashier got immediately excited when she spotted the box of Matar Paneer in my cart. She told me she had no idea her store had that there and asked which aisle she could find it. I pointed it out to her, explained exactly where it was... she thanked me profusely, we chatted some more as she checked me out and then wished me a good day.
7) Finally, I dropped by a convenience store, because my daughter had found an old Lotto scratch ticket and it appeared to be a winner, but the rules were a little confusing. I took it into a store to find out if it was for real and if it was even still valid. The clerk asked me what I thought it was, I showed him the rules and that it appeared as if I'd won $50, he ran it through the lottery computer and it came up a winner. Then we had a great laugh as he paid me the winnings and he thanked me as I was leaving for letting him have the experience of seeing one of those scratch tickets actually have a sizable winning, rather than just winning another scratch card.
Okay, that last one might be a stretch, but do you see the pattern? And let me add that this was all in the span of just one hour. It was as if I was wearing a Google shirt, or I was walking around behind an information kiosk or reference desk.
If this were the only time this ever happened, I'd just chalk it up to one very weird outing. However, things like this happen to me EVERY time I leave the house. I can just be walking through a store and someone will come up to me and ask me where the such-n-such is... or I can be walking down the street and someone will stop me and ask me how to get somewhere. It used to happen only once a day, but lately it's been happening more and more... and today was just plain uncanny.
What do you think it means? I have my guesses, but I'm interested what you would guess if it were happening to you. If you're one of those people who don't believe in signs, that's fine, but please don't bother to respond with "it means nothing," because that's not using your creativity. I want you to have fun with it. Pretend you're writing a movie and the heroine keeps getting shown signs like this... what would be the next plot point?
