Just like the title says really. Does anyone have any examples of reaching for something that they thought could be positive? Was the outcome positive or negative? I realize this is very vague, but I’m looking for a broad range or examples.
Well, the other evening, a damsel in distress with a dead car battery asked me if I could help jump start her car*. It was dark and a bit hard to see the labels on the battery terminals, but I remembered on my car that the positive terminal is the one further across the engine block. So I reached over, and attached the red jumper cable. The outcome was that I was right, so her car started up, and she gave me 10 bucks for my trouble.
*This actually did happen.
I’ve got one, and it concerned a job change and a move.
We lived in TN for 10 yrs or do, and towards the end I was miserable there. My husband thought he liked it, but because of his job and the horrible management there he was actually pretty unhappy too, he was just too close to it and had lived too long like that to see it. (Actually we both love the area, it was just the actual making a life there that sucked).
Long involved story short(er), I finally convinced him that we needed to move, and since the mere thought of job hunting sent him into a tailspin I said I’d do the legwork if he’s at least consider what I found. So I polished up his CV, sent it out to various places and got a few solid possibilities.
He followed up on two of them and chose the one that I actually liked best from a location standpoint, though the other would have been ok too. He got a sweet deal with a lot of time off, and we are both very happy here. We moved 3 years ago and I’m sorry I didn’t make an issue of the whole mess sooner.
It wasn’t fun getting to this point, and I did have a really uncomfortable time getting him to understand just how unhealthy our TN situation was, but the angst was absolutely worth it. I love it here, he likes his job and likes living here too.
So yes, a positive outcome for sure!
We are still married 29 years later, and our older daughter (with her new husband ) had us over to a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. So, net positive.
Damn, missed the edit window. Sorry for typos and scrambled thoughts.