Saturday, March 16, 2013

HP @ the Cleaners

Does it ever happen that you need to send your favorite skirt to the dry cleaner but you love the skirt so much and wear it every day. So when are you supposed to send it in to get clean?
The other day as I was walking, I was thinking that exactly! I needed to get my favorite skirt cleaned (I wear it every day and was wearing it at that present moment.) I passed by a dry cleaners store and asked them if they were open and if I can bring in my skirt. (they were about to close)
 One problem - I was wearing the skirt.
HP- I realized I had an extra skirt on me. I slept out the night before and had my overnight bag with me.
"Excuse me," I asked the sales lady. "I want to have my skirt cleaned. How much is it?
"Which skirt?"
"This one," I said pointing to the skirt I was wearing.
"We are having a sale today- half off!"
"Great! Do you mind if I just go to the back of your store so I can change?"
I got a whole tour of behind the scenes of the local cleaners. I was able to give them my skirt right before they closed and I only had to pay half the price-HP! (and my skirt was ready the very next day!)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Shabbos In Tzfat

I usually work on Fridays and can not travel far and usually stay in Yerushalayim. This past Friday (thanks to the Jerusalem Marathon) I didnt have work! I decided (last minute of course) that I really wanted to spend Shabbos in the Holy City of Tzfat. Thursday night I called a friend of mine in Tzfat and asked her if she knew of a place for me to eat and sleep. My friend told me she would make a few calls and get back to me. Friday morning at 10:17 she called me to tell me she had a place for me to sleep but no meals. The last bus leaving from Tzfat to Yerushalyim was at 11:00. I was in Ramot and needed to get to the bus stop which was twenty minutes away. What should I do? Should I just go? But I don't have any meals. But I really wanted to go! I decided to just get on the bus anyways. Hashem's going to help me.
I quickly gathered all my things, threw them into a bag and ran to the bus stop. I got there just in time. I hopped on to the bus on the way to Tzfat, with a place to sleep, and no meals.
An hour into the trip my phone started ringing.
It was my friend in Tzfat!
"Hi Devorah! I found all your meals for you!"
IT'S ALL HP!
Baruch Hashem it was an amazing Shabbos!


(My stop was the last stop in Tzfat. Right before  my bus stop, the driver asked me and another passenger if we minded if he made a short stop at the Egged bus station quickly. We both didn't mind. He went down a road off the bus route to the station. When we were heading back to the main road, we saw a passenger who had just gotten off the stop before, flagging the bus down. -He forgot his hat and Teffilin on the bus. To quote the bus driver "HAKOL M'SHAMAYIM!")

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Forgotten Bag

Rachel and Shira were on the 417 bus heading towards Ramat Beit Shemesh for Shabbos. On the bus they met Gila and Elisheva, two friends of theirs from camp. It was mini camp reunion on the 417! They caught up with each others lives and exchanged numbers, promising and hoping  they would keep in touch while they were in Israel. Nearing the first bus stop in Beit Shemesh Gila and Elisheva wished Rachel and Shira a "Good Shabbos" and got off the bus. As the bus continued through the streets of Beit Shemesh and headed towards Rachel and Shira's bus stop, Rachel's phone rang. It was Gila.
"Hi Rachel, It's Gila are you still on the bus?"
"Yeah, we are, we're about to get off." Rachel said.
"Oh phew, can you check my seat, I think I left my bag there."
"Yeah sure, hold on."
Rachel walked to the back of the bus where Gila and Elisheva had been sitting. On the seat was Gila's bag.
"Gila, yeah its here, I'll take it with me and you can pick it up from where we are staying."
"Rachel, thank you so much! This is real HP!"
"IT'S ALL HP!"