Did you ever think that sometimes some higher power directs you where to go and what to do? And by 'higher power' I am thinking television advertising or possibly random phone calls.
Which is what happened to me. Random phone message, that is.
Normally, my random phone messages are for some guy name Lewis, who has a girlfriend in Atlanta who just can't remember that she has his cell phone number wrong in her phone list. It's only wrong by one digit, but the result is she keeps calling me and asking,
"So, whatcha dooin?"
I keep saying "Who is this?"
and she says, "Whatcha mean, who is this. Who do you think it is?"
and I say, "I don't know who this is."
and she says, "Quit messin' with me. You know who this is."
and I say, "No, I don't."
and she says, "Stop playin with me. Did you talk to Shirley today? "
and I say, "Shirley who?"
and....well, you get the picture. This happens about every six months until she realizes we had this conversation already, and then apologizes and hangs up.
But today I got a different kind of random phone message. This was from Janice at the Subway Development Corporation. IF you didn't know, the SDC is responsible for creating new Subway shops all over the east coast. They are based in Mclean, VA. Janice was supposedly returning my phone message that I supposedly left for them sometime in the recent past.
Of course, I didn't do that, and this is probably just a wrong number, but it started me thinking. I did a reverse phone number search and learned that the SDC is located right next to Dulles airport, which is where I flew from when I recently went to Scotland. Also, when I was in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the first places I recognized were Starbucks and Subway, which were on every street corner, just like here in the good ol' U S of A.
So, I am thinking this is not a coincidence, but that I am being directed into a new career. Therefore, I am going to open a Subway shop, and I hear there are some empty spaces in Blacksburg. So there you go.
I know they need more sandwich shops in Blacksburg.