Day 363: Just like Superman, There when you need him

Three days in and I thought I was going to have one of those days already. Nothing bad happened and nothing good happened. I actually was beginning to stress out a little bit trying to think of what was making me happy today. I even started to make my own "happy" (which I still may have to do in the future, I'm not ruling it out, sometimes you gotta do whatcha gotta do), but stopped and left it into the hands of fate.

And to my pleasure, I learned today why I am going to love this project. I was in shock and awe when a man and woman made me happy by giving me not only their parking spot, but their parking pass at school this evening. I was running late and was in a hurry to get to class. I stopped at the parking ticket vending machine to get my parking pass for the night. I put a dollar in the machine, the machine wouldn't take it. I put four quarters in, one by one the quarters made a clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk sound as they all hit the coin return dish. When all of the sudden I heard a man say, "Hey, you can have our pass, we're leaving, hey, you could even have our spot!" 

I've noticed that in Sacramento particularly, we tend to mind our own business a lot. Meaning, we try not to talk and/or approach others whenever possible. So to be reminded that there are still people out there who are looking around them to help someone out, blows me away.

I thanked the man generously, took the ticket and waited for them to back up and took their spot. The man did not think much of it as I took the ticket, but he didn't know that he was doing me an extra favor by making me happy and saving my blog. I would have told him, but he might have thought I was weird and not given me his ticket.