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The MP4 player
Submitted by: Luuk
The NetherlandsSelf-employed, going up from way down...!
I went on a holiday last August to Florida with my ten year old daughter to visit the various theme parks. Before we left my nephew asked me to bring a mp4 player, one of the latest and best models to watch video on but also rare and not easy to find…
Usually I’m not so keen to bring products for other people because it takes a lot of time to find the right store in another country. I remember spending a whole afternoon to find some moose for my sister last February in New York…
Anyway, I almost forgot the whole issue until my nephew sent me a text message the day before I left Florida. I promised him to go and look for it in the remaining time. As a joke I asked the Universe to get me this mp4 player, but I didn’t really think too seriously about this request or the outcome.
The same afternoon I drove to several places, but no store had this special model. Because our flight back started from Miami, we had to drive the same afternoon and evening from Orlando and stay in a motel for the night. During our trip I stopped again at several places, but no player. The next morning I finally saw a Circuit City, but we were an hour too early before opening and had to go to the airport to make it on time, so no time for shopping. At Miami airport we also couldn’t find the player, and then we flew to Houston to catch our next flight to Holland. Again at the Houston airport no suitable shops with electronics. I sent a text message to my nephew with apologies for not finding his mp4 player.
My daughter and I had lunch and a few drinks before we finally went to our gate for getting on the plane. When we got to the gate my jaw dropped! A girl was sitting next to our gate on some kind of small mobile shop, and there it was… the exact model of the mp4 player we were looking for! Out of the blue! It was almost scary! We had passed many gates but I never saw any of these mobile shops carrying electronics.
The Universe works in mysterious ways! 😉