We close the store on Monday and Tuesdays during the summer. But we got a notice that we had a UPS delivery so we had to make arrangements to get it. Now when you have a business a couple of things are very important to have if you want to survive. A good accountant. A workable Point of Sale System. The cell phone number of your UPS guy!
We have two UPS guys. The morning guy and the night guy. The morning guy is a bit of a pussy hound. He has been banging sales clerks and secretaries up and down Court St. He even brings them in to buy sexy bras. So I have done him a bunch of favors and of course I am always tipping him when he goes out of his way.
So I see on the computer that I have a delivery due on Monday. I don't like to have it on the truck and then held over for two days until we are open. The package gets beat to shit and often damaged. We arrange a time to meet and I go and open the store on my day off. It sucks but it beats the alternative.
I call Johnnie UPS and he says he can meet me at 4pm. Fair enough. I open up. But there is no John.
Now of course someone comes up and starts pulling on the door. We are closed and I just don't want to let anyone in. I go to see who it is and it is a girl who is in our size range. With her Mom who is also in our size range. I tell them to come on in and shop. What the heck money is money.
They were from Canada and were big fans of the show. The happily shopped and bought a ton of clothes and we made a very decent pile of money when we were supposed to be closed! How about that!
The really crazy thing is they came all the way from Canada and were leaving NY on Wednesday so they would have totally missed the shop. If I hadn't been there waiting for the UPS guy. If he hadn't been late! It was synchronicity.
4 comments:
So much of life is serendipitous. It's important to remember these good ones, and forget the bad ones.
Did you eat in a Chinese restaurant for lunch?
Is that an obscure Mickey Mantle reference?
That did sound fortune cookieish.
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