Fortuitous

I learned that word in college, just like I learned a lot of other stuff just as a matter of being thrown into the pool and swimming around. I went to Engineering school at a pretty well-respected college, but I paid attention to all things around me and that is how I learned the word fortuitous, but looking back on my life, even before I knew the word, has truly fit that word.

Today, I was hanging out at my house, taking it easy because I was not feely great, when I got a call from one of my grandsons’ father, who has court ordained custody of him, saying that he had not yet shown up from school on the bus. I was after the scheduled delivery time, and we had rectified a failure to fill out the right forms that caused him to be denied the bus ride to school this morning. I filled out the form and drove dad and son to the school this morning and we turned in the form and were advised that everything was good.

However, dad did not grow up in the US and when he called at 5:15 he brought me on the “oh shit bus”. Called the school and were told, by recording, that they were closed. Call dad back and told him I would drive to the school, probably 12 miles and 20 minutes from my house at that hour, since he had to stay there in case he showed up.

I was about 2 miles into the drive when he called to let me know that LoZo was safe (my nickname for him). So how is that fortuitous? I got an adrenaline rush, I got to step up for Dad who has not had a lot of people of Euro American lineage with whom he has shared space in life, and now I was on the move instead of laying in my bed snoozing while my other grandson, whose custody I have, was playing video games after doing his homework for the day. Yep, in my life that is Fortuitous in a number of ways.