Do Things “happen in threes?”
In the past two weeks I’ve had a weird thing happen. I’m fixin’ to try and find some guru or new age type who can ‘splain it to me because it has me worried. While I was in Hawaii, I was checking out of the hotel and inadvertently dropped my keys down the elevator shaft. A toddler was fascinated with my cowboy boot luggage tag and fell over as she was reaching for it. I leaned down to help her stand up, and my rental car keys fell right out of my pocket down that tiny space between the elevator and the floor!
Of course this is an old hotel, and there’s no access door to the elevator shaft. They’d have to bring in a SWAT team to figure this one out, at great expense to me, of course. And even AAA couldn’t help. THEY (even though I pay lots of money as a Premium or Plus or something member) wanted to charge me $350 to help me.
I found out something innerestin’ about renting a car, too. Did you know NONE of the car rental agencies keep spare keys these days? NONE. NONE! HUH? You’d think with that expensive inventory, they’d actually want to have a way to get into a car if the keys were lost. But they all claim they don’t and you, my tired traveler, have to pony up $250 for a lost key charge. Sigh. So pony up I did. Had to get off the island and back to the desert!
But keep that in mind the next time you rent a car. Strap those keys to your chest with duct tape!
Now. I bring this up because I just left the grocery store twilight zone. My ‘quick trip’ was delayed because — you will not believe this — when I handed the clerk my drivers license, HE dropped it down the tiny space between the counter and the mechanical lazy susan part of the counter. Of course we couldn’t take that sucker apart either. The tools were locked in the absent Manager’s office. And there I was again. What is it with driving-related things?
I told him about my car keys and he said, (you can’t make this stuff up!) “Sounds like a repeat case of deja vue all over again.” Sounds like a triple redundancy to me! But I digress.
We messed around with this lazy susan thingy for about 15 minutes. Finally we discovered a little door on the side. Three of us tried reaching in and around the electrical wires (nothing like a little shock to get yer motor running on a Saturday afternoon!) Then we hit on an idea to take one of the plastic signs and use it to push the license closer to the little door. Three monkeys trying to figure out how to get the banana.
Finally the license slid within reach and I was able to grasp it with my too-long fingernails, avoiding electrocution and a repeat of the Hawaii experience.
Now I worry about that ‘things happen in threes’ superstition. Only I’m not sure what I should be watching for. How do you know what danger lurks around the next bend when you don’t know what the first two events mean?
So, dear readers, what is the deeper philosophical meaning of these two incidents? Is there a connection? Is the universe trying to tell me something? The photo on my drivers license sucks, get a new one? Don’t rent from Alamo? Don’t put your keys in your pocket, you moron? Or maybe, Time to get a new car! …I prefer the last one.
Let me know if any of your figger it out!
…over and out, and in possession of my drivers license!
Beth
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Or maybe it’s just that we are more aware when something out of the ordinary happens and try to draw connections – like learning a new word then seeing it everywhere. Or, thinking about buying a new car then seeing the one you want everywhere you go…uh oh, there it is again…new car!
Michelle
What Andrea said. I think these are just ways of telling you to slow down. Funny stories, though. After the fact, of course.
Jackie
Hi Beth. How about this saying, which I learned at a sales seminar on Saturday: Move at the speed of instruction. Take heed when something happens more than once and ask, what’s this about? Don’t wait for it to happen again. When this kind of thing happens to me, I often am rushing and not really paying attention. I’m distracted. I usually say thank you out loud and ask for the meaning. This has worked for me!
Andrea
Ask Xena. I’m sure she has a thought on this question. But then you must be prepared for her expecting three pieces of chicken!