When procrastination pays off!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, last month I had a new baby (my fourth) and due to the horribly high costs of health insurance deductibles and other random catastrophes, my husband and I have been unable to afford to buy a new vehicle. (Cry me a river, I know - but in this case, it IS kind of a pain, because I can’t fit all my kids into either of our current vehicles.) Anyway, my oldest, age 4, is supposed to start school next week, and due to the transportation issues, as well as having had a C-section to recover from and a newborn and three small children to take care of, I didn’t get around to registering him for school until yesterday.

The local elementary school informed me that all their classes were full, and my son would be transferred to the next closest elementary school. I sighed, and headed over there to enroll him. Here’s where procrastination pays off:

Because my son doesn’t live in the immediate area, the school is required to come pick him up every day - and not at a bus stop, either - door-to-door service. This makes my life (until I can spring for that minivan) so much easier, it’s not even funny.

I feel like I won the procrastination lottery.

Anyone else have examples of the Procrastination Payoff? Situations where if you’d only taken care of business like you were supposed to, you’d have totally missed out on something?

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I can top that.

When DoctorJ finished residency and we moved back to Kentucky, he still had to take his boards before he could start work. We’d not had a real vacation since…well, since before he started clinical rotations, so about 5 years, and we had a lot to celebrate. The plan was to go down to New Orleans the week after his boards and mooch about the Quarter gorging ourselves and pickling our livers, but we didn’t get around to booking a flight till fares had gone up substantially. “Eh, fuck it,” we thought, “we’ll go around New Years for our anniversary. Ain’t like the city’s going anywhere.” He took his boards the 1st of August, in 2005. You know, a few days before Katrina hit. If we’d off our asses and planned our big special reward vacation, we’d have been right there in the middle of the flooding.