A Parking Spot

One thing that totally fascinates me is how the little teeny tiny choices we make in life can make a HUGE impact on our lives, and even the world.

It was Thursday night everyone was staying at the Hotel in the town where my aunt was getting treatment so they all headed to the hot tub while my Nana and I stayed behind with Ms. Audrey for some chit chat...we were talking about the show Mad Men...have any of you seen it? The first season in on Demand right now and I watched it last weekend and got totally hooked! Anyways, we were talking about the accuracy of the show: the 3 Martini lunches, smoking at work (well, smoking everywhere), the way women in the workplace were treated even the bangs on one of the character...my Nana said she had bangs just like that.



During this conversation, I asked my Nana how she met my Grandpa and she told me the coolest story (or at least, I find it totally interesting)

Her aunt Peggy was moving to Virginia Beach because her husband was in the Navy. My Nana went down to Virginia Beach with her to help her look at houses. She was about 18 at the time and she worked for Capital Airlines so she got her and Peggy a flight down there for free.

So one night, Peggy wanted to go to the Bars and my Nana was driving since she didn't drink (or smoke). Peggy wanted to go to one more place and my Nana was not really feeling it so she said "Peggy, I am going around the block one more time and if I don't find a parking spot then we are going home" Little did she know how significant finding a parking spot would be to her life...and mine!

Sure enough, she headed around the block and found a spot and in the bar they headed. In the bar she sat next to a southern man named Robert, they hit it off and he asked to call her sometime...they kept in touch once she returned to Ohio...and eventually she moved down south to be closer to him...

...long story short that southern gentleman was my grandpa and if weren't for that parking spot, she would have just kept driving, her life headed in a completely different direction who knows where she would have ended up.

She would never have had her four girls, 8 grandkids and 6 great=grandkids (and counting, there are only 3 of us grand kids over 20)

I don't know why but I found this story totally cool..I just had to write it out for my blurb book!