Thank you, kind stranger!
Jun. 11th, 2025 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lb_leeRogan: so, today was rough, but a kind stranger made it much less bad than it could’ve been!
Because our therapy office got MuskRumped, we had gotten an appointment with a new place. And EVERYTHING went wrong. The subway was on shuttle buses. The street was on my map but the new therapy place wasn’t there! The street numbers were all wrong! And trying to call the place for directions just gets me a “your call is important to us; if you would like a callback to this number when your place in line...”
So here I am, dashing around in panicked circles like a rat in a cage, map in my hands, waving my arms at the sky and the perfidy of Boston and fate, at my wits’ end, shrieking at nobody, “WHERE IS IT?!” and a guy in a car pulls over and says, “You looking for the US Embassy too?”
He is a stout middle-aged man, with an accent and ethnicity I can’t identify. More important, he has a GPS! I pour out my story, frazzled and flailing, and he looks up the address. He then informs me there are TWO streets of the same name and I am on the wrong one. (Later, consulting my map, I will realize that it’s one street, broken in half, and only my half, the wrong half, is labeled on my map.)
I don’t know what to do. I want to scream. I had planned to be twenty minutes early to this appointment but now it looks like I will be late!
The man offers me a ride. I gratefully accept. It’s only a few minutes, and he cheers me up with stories about how he himself got lost in Japan and was bailed out by someone similarly. When I fall over myself thanking him, he says, “Don’t worry about it. Just pay it forward!” And I made it only a minute or two late.
The appointment itself was a disaster, as was the commute home, but I am choosing to remember that kind stranger who bailed a lost rando out. Thank you, beautiful stranger!
Because our therapy office got MuskRumped, we had gotten an appointment with a new place. And EVERYTHING went wrong. The subway was on shuttle buses. The street was on my map but the new therapy place wasn’t there! The street numbers were all wrong! And trying to call the place for directions just gets me a “your call is important to us; if you would like a callback to this number when your place in line...”
So here I am, dashing around in panicked circles like a rat in a cage, map in my hands, waving my arms at the sky and the perfidy of Boston and fate, at my wits’ end, shrieking at nobody, “WHERE IS IT?!” and a guy in a car pulls over and says, “You looking for the US Embassy too?”
He is a stout middle-aged man, with an accent and ethnicity I can’t identify. More important, he has a GPS! I pour out my story, frazzled and flailing, and he looks up the address. He then informs me there are TWO streets of the same name and I am on the wrong one. (Later, consulting my map, I will realize that it’s one street, broken in half, and only my half, the wrong half, is labeled on my map.)
I don’t know what to do. I want to scream. I had planned to be twenty minutes early to this appointment but now it looks like I will be late!
The man offers me a ride. I gratefully accept. It’s only a few minutes, and he cheers me up with stories about how he himself got lost in Japan and was bailed out by someone similarly. When I fall over myself thanking him, he says, “Don’t worry about it. Just pay it forward!” And I made it only a minute or two late.
The appointment itself was a disaster, as was the commute home, but I am choosing to remember that kind stranger who bailed a lost rando out. Thank you, beautiful stranger!
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Date: 2025-06-12 02:37 am (UTC)There's a similar street here that's split in half but the maps don't show the split- it happened after the maps were made. I got tripped up by that a few times.
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Date: 2025-06-12 04:03 pm (UTC)A pox, a pox!
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Date: 2025-06-12 01:45 pm (UTC)~Elle
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Date: 2025-06-13 10:59 am (UTC)I hope the therapy place in the referral will be able to help you.
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