Serendipitous Baking

THIS JUST HAPPENED.

Had started to make brownies when realized, GASP, AGAHST, there were no eggs in the entirety of our abode. THERE WERE NO EGGS FOR BROWNIES. Ran upstairs to knock on Trevor The Landlord's door so that I could ask him for one, but there was no answer. Even though I hear footsteps on the ceiling right this very minute, which means someone is HOME there was no answer. (But I do not suspect Trevor The Landlord, because he is very nice. Rather, I suspect Amanda the New Girl who is untried, and therefore, treacherous.)

What to do???

BROWNIES BROWNIES BROWNIES!

Then-- idea! Epiphany! I could ask a neighbor to borrow an egg! That is what they used to do in the olden times!

I put on my frilly apron so that I would be extra-believable.

I TRIED SO MANY NEIGHBORS' DOORS, AND NO ONE ANSWERED.

I started grumpily thinking, "I don't want to live in a country where a girl in a very convincing apron can't even borrow an egg from her own neighbor."

Then, two oldish people came out of a house that I thought was vacant. What?? Neighbors in plain view! I yelled out, "Oh! Thank goodness! Hello!" and they looked at me with indubitable befuddlement.

"Hello! I live in the house two doors down. I started baking brownies, but then I realized I didn't have an egg. Is there any way--"

"Oh, we don't live here," the woman said. "We just rent this place out, it's vacant."

"Ooooh," I said. (Woeful.) (Crestfallen.) "Well..." (Lugubrious.) "Thank you anyway."

"Wait..." the man said. "You need eggs?"

I turned back. A ray of light? A glimmer of hope? Peace for the middle-east? "I just need ONE egg," I said.

He grinned and slowly waggled his finger at me. "I may have a solution..." And he started walking to his car.

What on earth??

"We're on our way to a dinner party," the woman explained with a smile-- she, decked head to toe in vibrant mint green. "And, we're bringing eggs."

Who brings raw eggs to a dinner party??

But sure enough, the oldish man opened his trunk, pulled out a tiny cooler, and slowly, deliberately... revealed a cardboard carton. With great aplomb and a final flourish, he pulled out the solution to all of my problems and gave me... AN EGG.

"Thank you SO much!!" I said, totally delighted. "I can bake my brownies now!"

I CAN BAKE MY BROWNIES NOW!

"And by the way..." he said. "Great apron."

So this is why I like my life today.