Comments on: Appreciating My Good Fortune https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/ Funny San Francisco Latina Blogger Sat, 25 Mar 2017 06:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: bronwyn https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11358 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:10:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11358 Years ago, I went to the MOMA to see the Chagall exhibit. It was the last day of the exhibit so the line to get tickets was HOURS long. I had the whole afternoon free so I resigned myself to standing in line. After standing in line for all of 5 minutes a couple approached me offered me one of their tickets. Something had come up and they would not be able to go. They gave me and the woman behind me in line their tickets. Twenty minutes later, I was in the MOMA enjoying Chagall. It was the best day ever.

]]> By: Grace https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11349 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:34:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11349 I loved your post and it is amazing how many honest people there are in the world. I left my atm card in the machine and ours are programed to eat them so no chance of getting it stolen or returned. Of course it is like 7 days to wait til you get a new one (I guess that is a woe is me ;(
My daughter left a pair of sneakers at a theme park (Wet and Wild type of thing) We went back and they were still under the seat where she left them. Yay!

]]> By: jules https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11340 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:52:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11340 I think we all have those lucky times….we just need to remember we have them.

]]> By: Ttownsend https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11339 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:13:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11339 I definitely get in those moods but I look around and it doesn’t take long to realize just how lucky I am!!

]]> By: Tina https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11337 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:15:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11337 Well…I think having my 400 dollar speeding ticket dismissed is DAMN lucky!
Best,
Tina

]]> By: Anonymous https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11336 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:25:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11336 I post new post after I got your comment. Lucky me, hybernating too long 🙂 Just need knock knock sometimes lol! baby-pose.blogspot.com

]]> By: Myya https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11335 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:27:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11335 I love the positive side of things!!! YAY that you got to experience the good in all the yucky. 🙂

]]> By: KIM LONG https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11324 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:22:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11324 Those are great stories and you were so lucky especially with the atm card. At the moment I cant think of any woe moments but I am sure there are some..lol

]]> By: Snuggle Wasteland https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11322 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:35:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11322 Hmmm…I can’t think of anything specific right now but I know I’ve had lots of those moments in my life. It’s easy to get wrapped up in my little pity parties. Sometimes it only takes a little thought and perspective for me to snap out of it.

]]> By: unknownmami https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11332 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:17:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11332 In reply to Michelle from Honest & Truly!.

Weird, I was just thinking about you and then I got your comment.

I hope you have been well. I haven’t been very good about commenting lately because I always seem to have a baby nursing when I’m trying to read posts.

]]> By: Michelle from Honest & Truly! https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11331 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:13:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11331 You definitely aren’t the only one. I definitely have those moments, too, though I do my best to search out the silver lining – small as it may seem at the time. Snow on April 18? The wee ones loved it and had fun playing in it. It didn’t make the streets slippery. AND it wasn’t a destructive storm as there was elsewhere.

]]> By: Mrs4444 https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11327 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:36:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11327 Other than the time we got burglarized (and I got my empty purse back two years later), I have always gotten lost things returned to me by nice people. Good things happen to good people, ya know…. 🙂

]]> By: unknownmami https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11326 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:13:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11326 In reply to Kaylen.

Wow! That is unbelievably touching. What a kind person! I love him.

]]> By: Kaylen https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11325 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:52:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11325 I think the luckiest I have ever been was when I was moving to college in 1996 (pre cell phone era for me) – it was me, my 4 yr old son, our two cats and a VERY full Honda with every bit of space full, setting off on a 6 hr trip across state. Halfway there, just past the mountain pass, my car is shaking like mad and I pull over at a rest stop and call my dad, who tells me to unload the trunk, get out the jack and spare tire – jack up the car and spin each wheel to see which one is wobbling and put on the spare. Then drive to the nearest town and buy a new tire. And hurry–cause it was getting close to 5pm and I’d be lucky to find a place open on Sunday.
This elderly man volunteering at the coffee stand saw me sitting in despair near my car, staring at my very full trunk that I was going to have to unload and he came by and chatted with me for a few minutes. Then he got his jack out, jacked the car up and found the bad tire. He took the tire off the car and then told me to hold on a few minutes. He left and made a phone call at the pay phone and then came back and said that his son-in-law lives ten miles down the road and if I could just sit tight with my little one and the kitties, he’d go get me a tire from his sons shop, but the shop was closed and the son lives 20 miles away, so it would be a short wait. What could I do….
So I let some stranger drive away with my tire and wait…and after an hour, he comes back, puts a new tire on my car and then he refuses to accept payment.
He told me to consider it an early graduation gift and gave me a hug and wished me well as I started college as a single mom.
BEST graduation gift I got, for sure.
I will never be luckier than I was that day.

]]> By: Betsy @ www.Zen-Mama.com https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11323 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11323 I was feeling that way all week. I tried to remind myself how lucky I am when my husband said to me, “Your glass isn’t just 1/2 full it’s overflowing!” That’s what I named my lastest post, http://74.220.215.85/~zenmamac/?p=2033. We all feel that way! I, too, have had so many wonderful kindnesses, too. Great post Mami!

]]> By: savannah https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11320 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:16:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11320 every time i see the MITM coming through the gates at the airport, i know how fortunate i am, sugar! xoxoxo

]]> By: savannah https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11321 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:16:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11321 every time i see the MITM coming through the gates at the airport, i know how fortunate i am, sugar! xoxoxo

]]> By: From Tracie https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11316 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:42:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11316 “In your face woe”!! That is awesome!

We did taxes yesterday and for the first time, didn’t owe….and might actually end up with a refund!

]]> By: OHN https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11315 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:05:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11315 I am a believer in Karma. I don’t do things for people in hopes that the good will circle back to me, but it does seem to happen that way. It also is about perspective. I believe that good things happen to people often but they are too wallowed in the negative to see the peek of sun shining through. Don’t get me wrong….I am NO continual Pollyanna and can whine with the best of them, just ask my family….I have just learned to at least try to find the good in the crap and usually, USUALLY, I can find it 🙂

]]> By: Elisabeth https://byclaudya.com/sometimes-i-get-lucky/#comment-11314 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:14:00 +0000 http://byclaudya.com/?p=1953#comment-11314 Well Mami, like you I have had many moments of what to me constitutes good luck. Today for instance I found my lost glasses three days later where I had left them in the book shop. Only I didn’t realise till today where they were. Until now I’d searched everywhere. I lost my watch once on Brighton England -I’ve blogged about it – but found it later in the bottom of my bag.

I’m an optimist. I see the donut, not the hole.

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