My father calls the idea of the universe conspiring to help a person the "Parking Space Power", because its most tangible and obvious effect is that he never, ever has to hunt for a parking space. (I inherited the Parking Space Power, and have been known to find parking spaces in downtown San Francisco, no easy feat, and it's scary what can happen when the two of us are in the car together.) But it manifests in other ways, larger ones in some cases.
I wrote a while ago about how I got the job at the yarn store. The owner wasn't even hiring when I first turned up, but in the space of about a month, two people announced that they were quitting, and a third dramatically reduced her hours, so a position opened up. The owner also decided to branch into beads, and while I only have a year of knitting experience, I have MANY years of bead and wire experience. In the end, despite the fact that I have no retail experience and the store was overstaffed only a month or two ago, there was a position for me when I was ready to take one. That's an example of the Parking Space Power.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:19 pm (UTC)I wrote a while ago about how I got the job at the yarn store. The owner wasn't even hiring when I first turned up, but in the space of about a month, two people announced that they were quitting, and a third dramatically reduced her hours, so a position opened up. The owner also decided to branch into beads, and while I only have a year of knitting experience, I have MANY years of bead and wire experience. In the end, despite the fact that I have no retail experience and the store was overstaffed only a month or two ago, there was a position for me when I was ready to take one. That's an example of the Parking Space Power.