Interesting Sequence Of Events

The Husband really wanted an ice cream sundae.  We almost never have those.  Decided to stop at Costco on our way home from the Minerva Teichert Exhibit downtown SLC.  Slurping our ice cream at the provided tables allowed some people watching.  The Husband is always looking for someone he knows.  Sure enough, two people that we know walked by.  The one is our around-the-corner neighbor (whose dogs are our friends because we give them pupperoni).  The Husband ran after to get her attention to say hi.  I stayed at the table, waved, and off she went.  

Were just sitting there when a woman on one of those electric carts braked by our table and asked The Husband if she knows him. "What's your name?" she asked.  He told her and she said he must not be the person he looks like because that other guy's name is Kevin.  We chatted for a minute about this and that.  

All of a sudden the neighbor that I had previously waved to stood by us, needing some help.  Of course.  Happy to.  And it was easy enough.  Her car wouldn't start (sounded like the battery:  click, click, click). Her trunk was filled with foodstuffs needing refrigeration (yup, 100 degrees outside).  Her husband isn't answering his phone, she isn't sure where he is and there's no one else for her to call right now.  

Piled her belongings/food into our trunk and drove her home. 

I can't stop thinking about the entire situation.  Had we not stopped for ice cream we wouldn't have seen her walk by, The Husband wouldn't have run off to catch her attention to say hi (she hears only sorta well).  Had we not sat there for a minute longer and been approached by a complete stranger for some conversation we would have left the store and wouldn't have been there when our neighbor came back in looking for us to perhaps help her.  She must be super important for things to fall in place for her when she needed it today.

As for me, I was super-glad that we were there.  I generally try (not overtly, just kinda gently) to stifle The Husband's social tendencies.  I kind of just exist in a little bubble of anonymity/invisibility. And quite frankly, I have been a tad on the grumpy side today.  But how easy to lift a burden when you're right there.  I'm grateful today to have been a tagalong on The Husband's good-deed-doing.  I can definitely be less grumpy now.