Karma swing

Usually, you have to wait to see the balance of karma play out. For better or worse, Karma rarely consorts with Instant Gratification. I'm still waiting on a couple of karmic things to work themselves out. And when it does even out, it's subtle. That said, I witnessed the playing out of karma very directly last night. Hand of God, if you will.

I decided to head to the Music Box to see the Chicago TV Pilot Competition. A friend of a friend was in one, and I generally dig that kind of scene. And I have been meaning to get over to the Music Box since I moved here.

Because my planning skills are lacking, I wasn't able to bus it over. Which meant I had to drive. And the challenge of not finding parking in SoPo OR LP when I returned almost kept me home. Almost. But the idea of a pilot of a vampire and her monster friends taking a human as a roommate was just too irresistible. So I drove on over.

To my infinite delight, I found a primo parking space a block from the theatre, on Southport. But it was metered for another half hour, and in my infinite "wisdom" had used all my quarters to buy coffee so as not to break my big bill. As I stood there debating the gamble, a cab driver opened his window and asked if I needed quarters. Without accepting anything in return, the guy gave me 4 quarters (I only needed one).

Wow!

I see this as returning all the quarters I plunked into strangers' meters as I saw the ticket lady heading their way. And to think I thought karma just let me find the space, it also paid for it!

on Pandora: "Primitive Notion" - New Order