Booked Up

There's a Jewish library that is open every Tuesday night. For the past few weeks Rikki, a twelfth grader has been going every Tuesday night looking for a specific book. But each time she went, someone had already taken it out. This past Tuesday was no different and it was not there. Frustrated, she took out a different book. She checked it out and started to leave. As she was leaving a lady walked in the door and in her hand was the book that Rikki wanted!

"My Mamma Said They'de Be Days Like That"

Today I had one of those days. I woke up late, had to rush to work, I did an activity with my class that completely flopped. My computer log-in would not work. Everything seemed to be going wrong. It was just one of those days. On these days its harder to see ITS ALL HP! But never the less IT IS ALL HP! You have to keep reminding yourself over and over, IT'S ALL HP!
Around nine o' clock at night I get a phone call from Rivky, an 11th grader asking how my day was.
"Hi, How are you?"My day was Baruch Hashem just great, couldn't be better, FANTASTIC.....How was yours?" I asked.
"Oh, my day was ok, whatever, well I dunno." Rivky said.
I realized she didn't care how my day was, she was having a hard day.
"Uh, sounds like you had a great day too. How about finish studying and doing your homework and then lets go out." I told her.
"Really? Thanks, I need something exciting."
When she was ready, we went to Meijers. When all else fails....Go to Meijers. It's a twenty four -hour supermarket (its like Walmart) Her older sister was with us too.
While her sister was shopping for a suitcase, Rivky and I found ourselves by a cage of basketballs and footballs. I picked a football up and tossed it to her. She tossed it back and we started a game of catch.
After our "football" game we put the ball back and Rivky pointed out that the football was on sale. We decided to buy it when we realized the basketballs were on sale not the footballs. We tried finding how much the footballs were but we couldn't find a price anywhere. I asked one of the workers standing near by how much footballs usually cost. (I never bought one)
"Around twenty dollars" he answered.
We continued playing and decided to bring it up to the cashier and see if they were really on sale.
"Excuse me," I asked the cashier. Is this football on sale? It was in the same cage as the basketballs and a bunch of other footballs."
"Hold on let me find out for you."
"Sports to register 21.Sports to register 21"
While we waited for someone to come I said to the cashier:
"Catch" and I threw her the football.
We played catch and she even taught me how to throw a football. We were talking, when she said "Hold on one minute."
She turned around and I saw her whisper something to a store manager that was standing behind her. She came back and took the football and rang it up.
"How much is it?" I asked.
She smiled and said, "Two dollars and eleven cents!"

On Sale

Mrs. Baum was marrying off her son and wanted to buy herself a new dress for Sheva Brachos. Sunday afternoon Mrs. Baum called a friend to invite her to go on a shopping spree at the mall in search for a new dress.
Hopping from store to store she finally found a dress she absolutely loved. It was perfect!
After trying it on she saw the price tag. It was two hundred dollars, way out of her budget. Disappointed, Mrs. Baum hung it back on the hanger and headed for the next store. While she was shopping she couldn't find anything and decided to go back to the other store and just buy the expensive dress.
They headed back to the store and discovered it had closed for the day. She was really upset at herself that she didn't buy it before.
Empty handed the two left the mall and headed for home.
The following week Rabbi Baum saw that his wife was upset that she didn't get the dress. He offered to go with her back to the mall to buy it.
When they got to the store Mrs. Baum made a bee-line to the dresses. In front of her was her dress, with a tag that said ON SALE: Sixty Dollars!

Earthquake

I told my girls yesterday that I have a new policy. (they looked really scared)

"Ok girls, for every HP story you tell me, you'll get a laffy taffy." (they weren't scared any more)

Boy did I get a lot of stories! (Some of them were a little ridiculous. This is my favorite one "its HP crocs don't have holes on the bottom- cause I was wearing crocs when I stepped in to a puddle. If they had holes on the bottom I would have gotten all wet:) )

Here's one story a girl told me that happened to her father this past week.

Rabbi Raskin works in Kashrus and does a lot of traveling to various countries. Last week he was sent to Peru. He was planning on staying through Shabbos and coming home on Sunday. Thursday afternoon Rabbi Raskin saw that he was done with what he needed to take care of and there was no reason for him to stay in Peru for Shabbos. He booked his ticket for later that day and was home for Shabbos.

After Shabbos they heard, that on on Friday there was a 6.9 (big) earthquake in Peru. - Exactly where Rabbi Raskin had been!


(she got a laffy taffy :) )