Perfect timing

Readers share their "perfect timing, for good" stories. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Well, I asked and you answered. Actually that’s happened a few times lately.

First, with the amazing replies some of you offered to last Friday’s “Dream Job” comment thread regarding jobs and careers and starting businesses at age 40 or 50+. (I’ll be back in touch as the book comes along.)

And then, with the “perfect timing, for good” stories (aka “Long Story Short”) that some of you shared yesterday.

Now, I scour the comments every day, but I know most readers probably don’t return to the site to do so. So let me just share parts of a few of these from yesterday. (I made some minor formatting edits.)

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Waiting in line

The pharmacist pointed out that I had been ahead of her, and the woman took this news with some agitation.

As it turns out, she was waiting to get medicine for her adult daughter, who had just been diagnosed with cancer. She was just speaking aloud to anyone now, anyone who would hear her.

A man in line behind us bot…