Sometimes I believe in fate
Fate? Purpose? Or just timing?
So, I was "scheduled" to go into Spokane tomorrow with my landlord to take care of a cherry tree that blew down in a windstorm we had yesterday. I got the chainsaw ready to go and decided to just go today. Got directions and meandered my way around Spokane until I found the house.
I started cutting up this tree (of course, throwing the chain on the SECOND cut...how embarrassing.) Some of the tenants of this four-plex came home. So I got the chain back on and started bucking up this tree...looking up, I noticed the guy trying to tear one gal off another gal in the garage! These ladies were seriously fighting! They were so into it, at some point a bunch of wine glasses had broken and they were rolling around in that!
I shut off the saw and yelled "HEY!" at them. The dude told me to come help him, so I did. Imagine me in chaps, work shirt, leather gloves, hardhat, and sunglasses breaking apart a cat fight. Well, we got them separated and I found out that it was a mom and a daughter. The scolding and holding women apart went on for another 15 minutes and finally I convinced the daughter to take off after checking her and her Mom for serious cuts from the glass. (First aid class is a brilliant way to make you think of stuff like that.)
After all THAT, I cut up the tree, loaded it in the truck and took off. Getting home I talked to my landlord and she said she got a call from the mother who said she was getting a restraining order on her DAUGHTER! Strange strange place, Spokane is.
However, I must think what may have happened if I wasn't there today and right then. Was it a planned encounter? Did I subdue a volatile situation? What would have happened if I wasn't there? Nothing? More?
All very interesting things.
So, I was "scheduled" to go into Spokane tomorrow with my landlord to take care of a cherry tree that blew down in a windstorm we had yesterday. I got the chainsaw ready to go and decided to just go today. Got directions and meandered my way around Spokane until I found the house.
I started cutting up this tree (of course, throwing the chain on the SECOND cut...how embarrassing.) Some of the tenants of this four-plex came home. So I got the chain back on and started bucking up this tree...looking up, I noticed the guy trying to tear one gal off another gal in the garage! These ladies were seriously fighting! They were so into it, at some point a bunch of wine glasses had broken and they were rolling around in that!
I shut off the saw and yelled "HEY!" at them. The dude told me to come help him, so I did. Imagine me in chaps, work shirt, leather gloves, hardhat, and sunglasses breaking apart a cat fight. Well, we got them separated and I found out that it was a mom and a daughter. The scolding and holding women apart went on for another 15 minutes and finally I convinced the daughter to take off after checking her and her Mom for serious cuts from the glass. (First aid class is a brilliant way to make you think of stuff like that.)
After all THAT, I cut up the tree, loaded it in the truck and took off. Getting home I talked to my landlord and she said she got a call from the mother who said she was getting a restraining order on her DAUGHTER! Strange strange place, Spokane is.
However, I must think what may have happened if I wasn't there today and right then. Was it a planned encounter? Did I subdue a volatile situation? What would have happened if I wasn't there? Nothing? More?
All very interesting things.
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