In camp one day, Yael and her friends were going on a trip to a lake where they would be going biking and boating. Yael was wearing a long black skirt and decided not to change into a short skirt and leggings for biking, like the rest of her friends. Yael figured she would manage to bike without her skirt getting in the way too much. The girls got their bikes and were on their way up and down the gorgeous bike trail. As they were going up the trail, Yael's bike jolted to a stop. Her skirt got stuck in her bike. Yael tried untangling the skirt, but the more she tried, the more tangled it got. Her friends Tziri and Sarala stayed behind to help her, but they too couldn't get it out. Yael started to panic. There was no one else around and here she was stuck to a bike almost three miles away from the bike rental.
"I guess I’ll start walking my bike back, you go on and have fun." Yael told her friends.
They refused and stayed with her.
Yael took a few steps when she and her bike suddenly went tumbling down to the ground.
A woman passing by on her bike, stopped to see if she was OK.
“You OK? Anything I can help you with?” she asked.
Yael told her she was a bit tangled. Her friend Tziri jokingly asked:
"You don’t happen to have scissors on you, by any chance?"
"I don’t, but my husband Tom has a knife!"
“TOM,” she called out to her husband who was several feet ahead of them.
Her husband turned around and when he saw Yael’s skirt he immediately pulled out his pocket-knife and let her free.
After thanking them several times over, the lady turned to the girls and said:
"I guess that’s why we ended up coming on this trail and not on the mountain trail. we actually meant to go there but we got lost and ended up coming here. It’s a good thing we did."
The girls were amazed that even this non-Jew recognized the Hashgacha Pratis.
They waved goodbye and Yael and her friends headed down the trail, off to enjoy the rest of their trip!
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