My Lucky Number

I was on my way to the Best Buy Store yesterday and was reflecting on my pending start date for my new career. I start work on 2/11... The irony is that I have only had three jobs in my life... My last job had a start date of 6/11... My long time career in the mortgage industry began with a start date of 10/11... You should see the trend by now that the 11th seems to be my lucky nummber.

As I drove and contemplated this phenomenon I couldn't help but smile and decide that from now on 11 must be my number.

I arrived at the Best Buy with my lucky number on my mind... my wife and I had decided that we wanted to purchse the ever elusive Nintendo Wii game system... of course we could not find one anywhere... My wife called me at home and advised that a co-worker had informed her that Best Buy had a shipment coming in this week and perhaps I should go in and see if I could put my name on a waiting list. Well I went right to customer service and I preceded to explain to the young woman behind the counter that I wanted to put my name on the waiting list and she had a smile on her face as she called to one of her co-workers to bring up the Wii that had just been returned (5 minutes before I walked in). A customer had purchased it as a Christmas present for someone that already had one!

Everybody in the store soon became aware of the "lucky" customer who just happened to walk in the door at that precise moment. I actually received congratulations from two of them on the way out of the door. They had not seen a Wii in months! They all chalked it up to me being lucky, however I know that luck my was precipitated by my lucky number 11!

Gotta go now and check flights for Vegas!