I was in a bar in NYC once and the cast of a Broadway musical was having drinks to celebrate a birthday. So, I may have seen the best “Coworkers singing Happy Birthday to someone” performance in history.
I went to a Rammstein show, after it me and a friend couldn’t get to the hotel because there weren’t any buses that late, so we went to the back street to wait, might see the band go out or something and we had nothing better to do. At something like 3AM the gates open and they all walk out, we just stayed there because we didn’t want to bother them, but then Till walked towards us and asked “Have you been waiting long?” We were a bit befuddled and answered “yes?” and he said “Sorry to keep you waiting” and took a picture with us.
Not a great story, but as a huge Rammstein fan that was really cool.
When I was a teenager I had a variety of joint problems, including my knees. Walking down off a mountain one day the weather took a turn for the worse and a strong gust of wind knocked me off my feet and I landed knee-first on a rock. Nothing broken, but couldn’t walk on it. We’d barely seen anyone else that day but it just so happened that a couple were just approaching us as I fell. The wife was a nurse, the husband was ex-special forces.
After some job prospects fell through my dad convinced me to pursue an online master’s degree part time while I continued looking for work
Come the following March and all those jobs shut down completely with the initial outbreak of COVID but I was already ahead of the curve using the lockdown time to get a swanky new degree.
Me too, except mine was an AS. Covid hit and my work hours dropped so low that I just said “fuck it” and quit my job to finish school off full time.
Still waiting.
I do have the gift of not being in the wrong place at wrong time though.
So you’re good at being in the average place at the appropriate time?
More or less
Got hired at the same time as another guy. Don’t recall why, but I was in my boss’s office when he decided it was time to assign us offices despite us being in training and not needing them for another few weeks, so he grabs his admin assistant and off we go to verify which offices were open / available. I got the one with a window.
Had two moments where me and room mates were out of work during covid and got to post pone my mortgage for the year. Then when it came to pay they offered a refinance deal that took 3% off my loan.
I like to think of myself as a forward planning oppertunist, so a lot of my good fortune is hardworking and foresight. That was shear fucking luck on my part.
When I impersonated Gordon Freeman in Half Life 2 and nobody noticed 😄
