Mincha

With the days getting shorter and ending work after Shekiyah, I usually Daven Minchah in the conference room, near my desk.

Today, a little bit before Shekiyah the elementary principal (who is usually never in the high school building) asked me if I had a Siddur she could borrow. With pleasure I lent her my Siddur.
I noticed she was Davening by the Business Administration desk.

As soon as she returned the Siddur I started Davening myself. Instead of Davening in the conference room as I usually do, I Davened in the same spot where the elementary principal had Davened- right near the Business desk. As I was Davening, I noticed that the lady who works at that desk had left for the day and she had left on her portable heater, which was right near a plastic bag.

Had I not Davened there and not turned it off, it could have Chas V'Shalom caused a huge fire!

Missing Pictures

Tammy Simon and her sister Riva were at Rite-Aid Pharmacy printing pictures when the printing machine broke. Riva was really disappointed!
The cashier took the pictures from the machine, mixed someone else's pictures, and gave them to Tammy.
While looking at the pictures when they got home, Riva pointed out that the pictures looked very familiar. After taking a second look, Riva realized they were her classmates science project pictures.
The next day Reva brought them to school and indeed they were her friends pictures. Her friend was ecstatic that Riva had "found" her missing pictures. She was now able to complete her science project!

Birthday Supper

Thursday night I was going out of town and I didn't know what eat for supper. I decided that in honor of my birthday I would buy something for myself at the Pizza store. I NEVER eat out. I'm not a pizza person but if you're looking for some good pizza try out Jerusalem Pizza.
Since I'm not a regular customer there I don't know their store hours. I don't either know their phone number by heart or even have it in my cell-phone (just goes to show how often I buy pizza)
Actually the last time I had pizza from there was probably two years ago Motzoei Pesach. I looked up their number in the W.O.L. (phone book) and called them.
"Hello Jerusalem Pizza. We're closed. How can I help you?"
"Your closed?" I asked looking at my watch.
"Yes, were closed."
"Ok, thanks have a great night! There goes my supper." :( I said hanging up.
I wasn't ready to give up and have a bowl of cereal (that would have been a little of a depressing birthday supper)
So I decided to call Dave's Gourmet. A Fleshig place in town. I've been there a total of zero times. Just because I don't eat out. I like to stick with home-made food. Though I've heard that Dave's Gourmet food is really great - especially the Cholent on Thursday nights. I flipped to their ad in the W.O.L. (phone book) and on the bottom of the page in small print was......"MENTION THIS AD FOR A FREE MEAL ON YOUR BIRTHDAY" (up to Ten dollars) I grabbed a few friends and headed over to Dave's Gourmet and got a delicious free supper of I have no idea what it's called but it sure was good! IT'S ALL HP!

Who Stole the Cookie.......

Tova Debben, a ninth grader was making cookies for her younger sister's Chumash party. She spent the whole Sunday designing each cookie with each first grade girl name on a cookie . Early Monday morning, the day of the Chumash party, Tova walked into the kitchen to see her baby brother munching on a Chumash party cookie. On the cookie was the name Chana Bracha.

"Oh no" Tova thought. "Chana Bracha, won't have a cookie, she'll feel horrible."

Tova went to look at the box of cookies to see if any other cookies were missing. They were all there. Tova noticed that there was another cookie that said Chana Bracha."

"Hmmm, that's strange, how is there two Chana Brachas?"

Tova realized her mistake. There was a Chana Bracha and a Leah Bracha in her sisters class. She inadvertently made two Chana Brachas instead of Leah Bracha. Thankful her brother ate one of them, Tova quickly designed an extra cookie with the name LEAH Bracha. Imagine how Leah Bracha would have felt not seeing her name on one of the cookies and seeing two Chana Brachas. Hashem is looking out for everyone, He sent Tova's baby brother as a messenger to fix the problem!

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!