Bestowed upon me this past week: a TV job, a dollar bill on Flatbush Avenue, endless found loose change, and a free round-trip Metro North ticket

Quite delightful, no?! I still can't get over the Metro North ticket. When I reached in the thing to retrieve my ticket, receipt, and change...there were TWO tickets and TWO receipts! I felt like I was on Candid Camera. I mean, HOW does one NOT take their ticket?!? It was paid by credit card, I saw...did they somehow pay for 2 and not know it? But even that doesn't make sense...why wouldn't THEY have discovered the two tickets? Did the machine malfunction? MAYBE someone was just PAYING IT FORWARD to me!!!!! I JUST don't know. I stood around a good 5 minutes to see if anyone frantically ran back for it, knowing how INSANE commuting can be, and imagining their sheer exasperation. Then that ticket was MINE, though! I've LOVED the first 13 days of 2008! I PRAY my good luck continues...