Gone With The Wind?!

This is an UNBELIEVABLE story! It's REAL HP! When I heard this story I was blown away. Everyone that I told this story to was 'blown' :) away.
Now with that introduction here's the story:
My friend, after work needed to go to the bank and deposit two checks. She also needed to stop off at two stores. Dassie decided to go to the mall first and then to the bank. She did her shopping, got what she needed from both stores, and headed for the bank. She was at the traffic light, gathering up what she needed for the bank when she suddenly realized she was missing her checks. The last place she had seen them was in the mall. She wasn't sure which store though. The first store she had gone to was a HUGE department store. She decided against going there. She had gone all over that store on all three floors and there was not a chance she would find it there. So she went to the second store. After looking all around, under clothing racks, behind mannequins, and on top of tables, she gave up. It was NO WHERE!

"Excuse me, did you by any chance see two papers flying around the store?" Dassie asked the cashier. She hadn't.

As she was leaving the store she asked the - I don't know the official name for those extremely friendly ladies who smile and welcome you to the store, but that's who she asked.

"No, honey, I'm sorry I didn't see it, but is there anything else I could help you with? I hope you know about our sale, buy five items and get the sixth half off."

My friend started leaving the store, when suddenly a shopper came over to her.
"I just over heard you talking to the sales lady. I actually did happen to see two papers in the parking lot. You can try looking there, but it might not be there, it's pretty windy out there"
My friend quickly left and started looking all over the parking lot, but did not find them. Dassie went back inside the store. She asked the shopper where she had seen it.

"Try looking down by Toys R' Us."

Dassie left again (this time she avoided the sales lady telling her about all their amazing sales) and headed in the direction of Toys R Us. As she was walking around the parking lot, she saw two papers flying in the wind.

Chasing the papers, Dassie finally caught up with them. Picking it up she saw it was none other then HER TWO CHECKS!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL HP!

(If the one purpose for those super friendly sales ladies was for Dassie to find her checks then they are worth it. Now Dassie never complains about those sales ladies :) )

Plaster Covered Cookie Anyone?

Raizy's kitchen was flying. It was the Wednesday before her brother's afruf and she was baking up a storm. The fourteen layer cake was cooling, the Strawberry Short Cake was in the fridge and the Pecan Pie just came out of the oven.The last thing she was going to make was crinkle cookies. Raizy finished covering the crinkle cookies with confectionery sugar and put the first batch in the oven. On her way to the sink to wash her hands, she licked the confectionery sugar that was on her fingers. She spit it out as soon as she tasted the "confectionery sugar". This was definitely not confectionery sugar!

She went to find the bag where she had gotten this powder from. On her kitchen table Raizy saw a clear plastic bag where she thought she got the confectionery sugar. There were some painters painting at her house that day painting their kitchen. They had left a bag of plaster powder on the kitchen table that looked exactly like confectionery sugar. Raizy was thankful that she licked her fingers and saved herself from serving chocolate cookies covered with plaster powder!

Wrong Name?

Zev Klein became a chosson a month ago and was learning in Eretz Yisroel until his wedding. He made a flight on El Al, to come to America a week before his wedding. A few days ago he was thinking about his flight home and was wondering if he had requested an aisle seat. Whenever he flies he is very particular that he has an aisle seat. He was debating if he should call up El Al to see if he could get an aisle seat. He finally decided to just call and make sure he had one.
"Hello, my name is Zev Klein and I had a reservation on your seven am flight on March 7th. I wanted to request an aisle seat."
"Hold on one minute, let me check our computers." the agent said.
After waiting for several minutes, the agent finally returned.
"I'm sorry, we don't have anyone by the name of Zev Klein on this flight."
"Are you sure?" Zev was confused, he was a hundred percent sure he made a ticket on this flight. "Can you check again please?"
The agent checked again and came back saying,
"No, sorry, no Zev Klein, but there is a Zev Klied on this flight." she said
Zev and the agent figured out that indeed, that was Zev's ticket, but the agent who had taken down his name, took it down wrong.
"You are one lucky guy Zev. If you would have shown up on the day of your flight they would not have let you on."
Over the phone Zev fixed the mistake and Baruch Hashem was able to have a flight home for his wedding.

It All Started With a Laptop

When we were in Florida two of my friends (Mimi and Simi) brought their laptops. When Mimi got home she realized that her laptop recharger was missing. Basically, Simi by mistake took home both laptop recharger's. HP, Mimi was able to use a friends recharger until Simi sent her, her recharger. Monday morning, Mimi was using her computer but didn't have a recharger. (Her friend needed it at work) While Mimi was using her computer it started beeping telling her to plug it in... since she didn't have a recharger she couldn't exactly do that. Mimi wasn't sure what she was going to do because she really needed to use her computer. She used it until it completely died. As she was getting ready for work, she suddenly heard a knock at the door. Wondering who it was, she went to answer the door. It was none other then the mailman, delivering her...........recharger!

"You couldn't have come at a better time" Mimi shrieked.

"Oh, that's just great, BArUch HaSHem" the mailman smiled.

Money Grows On........

My friend from Israel just sent me this HP story:
While waiting for the number 4 bus after school, I realized I didn't have money to pay my babies babysitter.I realized I would have to go home first, get money, and then go all the way back to the babysitter. Now, after a long day at school, I really wasn't in the mood of all that. To add to it, it was late and I still needed to daven mincha. If I made the extra trip home I would miss shkia. Not sure what to do I got on the bus and walked towards the back to find a seat. And.... it happened to be on the bus was non other then a girl from my class. She gladly lent me money I needed. I didn't have to make the extra trip home!!!

Just In Time

My brother was going on vacation with his family for a few days. His plan was to leave his car in front of his in-laws house in Brooklyn and get a ride from Brooklyn to the airport. On Thursday morning when he came to Brooklyn he tried parking, but because of all of the snow (or maybe because its Brooklyn) he couldn't find any parking spots. He called his father in law and asked, if he could park his car by his office which was a few blocks away. His father in-law was more then happy to let him park his car there, he just told my brother that he should leave the car keys inside the office, on his desk. My brother parked the car by his father-in-law's office and went to put the keys inside. As he was leaving the office he saw a delivery truck pulling up the driveway. It was a shipment of his father-in-law's books that had just been printed. No one was in the office besides for my brother. HP he was there to let the delivery men inside and deliver the boxes.

Happiness

What is happiness?
I was teaching seventh grade this morning and I asked them this question. After discussing with them what happiness is, I had them all write down on a piece of paper what makes THEM happy. They each filled up a whole paper with things that make them happy. I had one girl come up and read to the class what she wrote. She read, "Vacation, chocolate, rollerblading, no school, good grades, ice cream, friends, jewelry, parties, ......."

All eighteen seventh graders agreed and shouted out similar things. I asked them to take all their papers and put it in to a foil pan. I then told them to put on their coats and follow me outside. I took out a box of matches and lit all their papers on fire and burnt them until they were ashes. We had a mini bonfire. Back inside the classroom I told to them the following.
"You just wrote on your papers all the things that made you happy, and I just burnt all of it, its gone,its ashes, you don't have it anymore. All those things that make you happy are GONE! Does that make you sad?"
"Yes" they answered.
"Well then that is not true happiness, Yes those things MAKE us happy. But it's not TRUE happiness."
So then what is true Happiness?

We discussed this question, I then went to the board and in HUGE letters wrote.............. IT'S ALL HP!
"Girls, knowing that EVERYTHING comes from Hashem is true happiness. That means that even if something doesn't go your way, you know that it's from Hashem so there is no reason to be sad. Let say all your friends got to go on vacation and you didn't. That would make you sad. If vacation is what makes you happy and you didn't have it, you would be sad. But if you know that Hashem wants the best for you and wants you to be home for whatever reason, you would not be sad. Lets take another example. Let say hotdogs makes you happy, and your at a Community barbecue in the park. But your mother doesn't let you have any hotdogs. Does that make you sad, YES! But the reason she doesn't let you have it is because later she's planning a surprise ice cream birthday party for your Uncle Harry. She doesn't tell you, because its a surprise, but she wants you to have ice cream later and enjoy the party.
We know it's HP and it's from Hashem. So there is no need to be sad and unhappy. ( Yes it's easier said then done), Look out for the HP in your life, get a notebook and write all your HP stories. Tell everyone that you meet your HP stories. TALK ABOUT IT. Send me your HP stories. JUST DO IT! Even if you don't see a happy ending, It's still HP!" BE HAPPY- ITS HP!

The Shoe Fits

My friend Haddasah had been looking for shoes for her sister's wedding for a while. The wedding was getting closer and she still couldn't find anything. Showing up to the wedding without shoes is not such a good idea. She decided to go back to DSW Shoe Store again - for the fifteenth time. As she was leaving her house, she found a Starbucks coupon in her purse. She knew she wasn't going to use it, so she went to put it in the kitchen drawer, where they keep all their store coupons. Right on the top of the coupon pile was a $10 off coupon to DSW! She went to the store and actually found shoes - the day that she also found the coupon!

Saved by a Prayer

Tali woke up Wednesday morning feeling a shooting pain in her eye. Her vision was blurry and she could barely keep her eye open. There was a major snowstorm across the country and most places had closed down. In middle of davening Shacharis she realized this was serious and she had to get to an eye doctor as soon as possible. After she finished davening she carefully drove in the snow to the closest doctors office. When she got there she saw that she was the only patient there.

"Excuse me", she said to the secretary, "my eye is in a lot of pain. I know Dr. Kaplan isn't in but I am wondering if there is any other doctor that could check out my eye for me."

"Actually," the secretary said, "Dr. Kaplan is here, but he's running out now. I don't think he can see you, let me go ask him."

A few minutes later she came back and told Tali that Dr. Kaplan would be able to see her.
Dr. Kaplan usually is not there at that time. After Dr. Kaplan looked at Tali's eye, he said to her,
"It's a good thing you came in, your eye doesn't look too good. I am going to give you some drops and a gel for your eye. Here's the prescription, go as soon as you can to the pharmacy."
When Tali got to the Pharmacy the pharmacist told her "We don't have the gel here so we will have to order it, you can pick it up tomorrow."

"Do you have a Pharmacy discount card?" she asked Tali. "These prescriptions are really expensive. Over a hundred dollars for both of them."

"No, I don't think so" Tali said.

Tali bought the medicine and said that she would come back the next day for the gel. When Tali got home she was about to take the medicine when she remembered that she had a card which has a tefilah on it, that you say before going to the doctor or taking medicine. Tali never said it before but she decided to say it. She couldn't remember where she put it, then she remembered it was in her old wristlet. As she was going through her old wristlet she saw a Pharmacy Discount card that her friend had given her in the summer. Tali now was able to get the gel for much cheaper.

HP IN FLORIDA!

Two Wednesday's ago I got a call from a friend of mine from out of town. She asked me if I wanted to go to Florida with her and a few other girls. I told her I would check out the tickets, but not to keep her hopes up too high. I really didn't think it was possible, especially on such short notice. The tickets were sky rocketing high. I looked on Thursday, and on Friday and the tickets were still outrageously expensive. It wasn't worth going. Motzei Shabbos for the fun of it, I checked the prices of the tickets again. This time the tickets were half the price, and much much cheaper. I made my ticket and was in Florida a few days later.

• The plan was, we would all fly out early Wednesday morning and meet at the airport in Florida. Two girls were coming from Baltimore. Instead of flying out from Baltimore they decided to fly out from Washington. HP! There was massive snow storm in Baltimore that day and the Baltimore airport closed down.
• All of us were flying from different places, it was major HP that none of our flights were canceled. Most of the flights after ours were canceled.
  
• The first night we got there we needed coals to cook our chicken. We also needed drinks and Kettle Cooked barbecue chips. My friend and I decided to run out and see if we could find a store. We found a gas station and did our grocery shopping there. My hands were getting full (gas stations don't provide shopping carts- by the time you push it through the door, you've been through the whole store.) I went to put the groceries on the counter. As I was putting it on the counter I suddenly asked the cashier if there was a grocery store near by.
  "Ya, there's one right down the block, it closes in three minutes at 9:00. "
  My friend and I quickly put everything back, - that took half a minute. We jumped in to the car and flew down the block to the grocery store. -that took a minute and a half. We each went to get the items on our shopping list.- that took my friend one minute and me ten minutes. We made it just in time!
  
• We couldn't visit Florida without watching sunset and daven mincha on the beach. When we went, we had to pay for parking. At first we couldn't find any quarters. We finally found exactly enough quarters. It gave us enough time to take pictures, daven mincha, take pictures, watch sunset and take pictures. When we got back to the car there was exactly two minutes left.
  

• When my friend got home she realized that she lost her camera. She called the rental car place (the car was rented out already) and she called the place where we stayed on Shabbos. They couldn't find it. The next day she got a call from the lady we were staying by.
  "My kids are coming to visit this week, as I was making the beds for them and moving the bed, I saw on the floor none other then your camera. If they hadn't been coming I would not have found your camera for a long time!"
  
  
• We had gone shopping one day and I bought a big bottle of hand cream. When I was packing I realized that it's considered liquid and they wouldn't let me on with it. Since the airport is more concerned that this bottle of hand cream might high jack the plane then Bal Tashchis I realized they would probably throw it out. I only had a carry-on and wasn't checking my bag. When I got to the airport they told me that my bag was too big to fit on the plane so they put it under the plane for me!

• My parents had gone to Florida the same time. On the way back we flew on the same day. Since I landed forty-five minutes before them, I was able to pick up the car for them from the airport parking lot, scrape the snow off the car and pick them up!
  

ITS ALL HP!!!