SOMEone Is Looking Out For Me

Last week I was informed that it was extremely important that I get new tires right away. I looked and realized that I was an idiot for not having checked sooner. My tires were in really bad shape, but I wanted to shop around for the best price so I didn't replace them right then.
This morning as I turned onto the road leaving my apartment I had the sudden overwhelming feeling of "you need to go get new tires NOW." It was totally impractical because I didn't have a ride to work if I went to the dealer at that point. But it was such a strong urging that I couldn't NOT do it. So I called Will (my usual dealer-to-work morning ride) hoping that he wasn't already on the road to work. He wasn't. He could give me a ride to work. So things went smoothly in the morning.
The afternoon was a little more stressful, as I needed to pick up my car by 6:00pm. Eddie (my ever-faithful ride to AND from work whenever I need one) and I both work on campus, so we were going to meet at the park-and-ride lot where his car was parked. But on this fine afternoon the busses we have to take are all caught up in traffic and running 20-30 minutes late. Stressful, very stressful. I even cut in front of some gals who were hesitating about whether to take the last spot on the bus that finally came. You snooze, you lose, girls! So Eddie showed folks what a Protege can really do, and we pulled into the dealer's at 5:59. They let me in, but just barely. I got my car and headed off to job #2, which I was already very late for.
Okay, so by now you're thinking this is the lamest story EVER.
But I'm sitting here at work at 8:45pm and there is a torrential downpour on the other side of this office window. If I was out there driving with my old tires, I would surely have slid off the road and gotten hurt.

Someone has certainly got my back. Thanks DAD.