Background - I had coffee with my friend this morning and was telling her about the college student who is reading a piece of my writing and helping me edit it. I know this girl’s mother but have never met the girl herself. She is doing an internship for a publisher in New York and I just e-mailed her the piece of writing that she agreed to help me with. I told my friend that it was a little weird not knowing what she looks like when she is reading something so very personal to me.
S.C.O.U.T. - After coffee I crossed the parking lot and headed up towards the grocery store to pick up a few items for dinner. I was just about to cross the street when a car crossed the road in front of me and I noticed that it was the mother of the girl reading my writing. Sitting next to her was a young girl who I assumed to be one of her daughters. I rushed home and e-mailed the girl immediately to see if it had been her in the car with her mother. She wrote back that she was home for the weekend and it had, in fact, been her! I was stunned to find that I now knew what she looks like, and only moments after telling my friend that I felt a little weird about that very thing. The timing of this S.C.O.U.T. shook me to the core. I had no idea she was home for the weekend and thinking about the narrow window of time required for me to see her driving by was mind boggling. Almost anything could have happened to make me miss that split second sighting. It still gives me a tingle to this day.
My goofy dog Scout is unimpressed with my boggling and just wants to know what new and delicious treat I bought him at the store. Typical.
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