By Jim Hagarty
2016
A friend asked me for a ride to his college this morning. I said that would be no problem as I had to deliver a package to the college anyway. But I joked there would be a fee. He laughed.
He wanted me to take him to his townhouse near the college so I dropped him off and we said goodbye. I drove across town and found a restaurant for lunch. Then I headed to the college where I had never been. It’s a big place. One hundred acres, 21 parking lots, three floors, 15,000 students. More entrances than an African jungle.
I found a parking lot near a door. I walked through the door and looked to see there was only one student in a long, empty hallway. The friend I had dropped off at his place an hour before stood there grinning at me. I showed him the address of the office I needed to go to. He took me there. Fee paid in full.
If either one of us had delayed by even a minute what we had been doing, we would not have met in that hallway.
I like when things like that happen.
