Connie's Corner

Random tips the scale...

July 18 Prompt - The title of my blog is "Life is random...and so am I". Write about how you've experienced the randomness of life. It could be any (or all) of the following:

A random act or experience
A random encounter/meeting with a friend of a friend of a friend (like the Six Degrees of Separation theory)
Synchronicity that you've witnessed

I think most things that happen to us daily are random. Even planned things seldom go as planned. I guess the very biggest random thing that ever happened to me was the way I met my husband. Like most everyone else, I had to find a job during summer vacations to save money to take back to school in the fall. For two summers I had been very lucky by getting a rotating secretarial/receptionist job for the Delaware State Highway Dept. Nothing could have suited me more. Every week or two I would go to a different division so by the end of the summer, I had worked with a broad range of offices, planning & design, highway right of ways, maintenance. Anyway, I loved it, and when I applied the third year and there were no openings due to budget tightening, I was down in the dumps.

So...where to look? That old standby, waitressing. Time was wasting and I had to find something quickly. From a newspaper ad (there was no internet back in those days), I applied at a restaurant named Kirby and Holloway's, which is still standing and open in the very same spot today in Dover, Delaware. Even though I had no experience, surprisingly they hired me...it must have been the $2.75 per hour wages. But don't forget tips. I had a job at least.

My job was a standard waitressing one, but Kirby's had a special set up for something called curb service, a precedent of the current drive in window and very similar to the current Sonic chain.

As chance would have it, unknown to me at the time, my husband, who was stationed at Dover Air Force Base, was moolighting by manning the "call button". And as they say, the rest is history. The randomness of circumstances were to have far reaching tentacles for me in that summer of 1963....

until next time....c