A woman stuck in Black Friday parking chaos asks her intuition, which she calls the parking fairies, yes-or-no questions about where to go. She follows the guidance to stop and wait despite her urge to keep searching. A spot opens directly in front of her within minutes.
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I was at Black Friday sales, so you can imagine what a nightmare they were. And there was cars everywhere, and I was like, I dropped my daughter and my sister off and they went in. I went, I'll get a park because I find it a lot less stressful just parking by myself. And I was like, I was getting overwhelmed, I was getting frustrated. All those little thoughts, you're never going to get a park, uh, you suck, etc., coming in. Bing, bang, bang, bang, bang. I was like, okay, breathe. I have to hand this over to a higher power, which is my heart. We are the higher power. You are it. It is you. So listening— you call it your intuition, parking fairies, whatever it is— I was like, I'm never going to think my way through this because there's too much mayhem and chaos. And so I went, okay, where are we going? So am I driving down here? They're like, yes, drive down here. Am I going left? No. Am I going right? You're going right. Okay. And then I'm like, do I keep going? Yes. Keep going? Yes. Keep going? Yes. Am I turning left or am I turning right? Anyway, this went on for a while and then eventually they said stop. Okay, there was no parks there. So I was like, they said stop. Okay, stop. Just wait here, they said. Just wait. And so I waited. And you know when you're trying to find a park, it feels like a very long time in between minutes. I probably only waited 2 minutes. Probably at about 60 seconds, I started to second-guess with this, going, oh no, come on, we should just keep going. And they were like, no, wait. And I was like, okay. Another minute went past. They were like— I was like, oh, the head started taking over. No, they were like, no, you need to trust us and you need to allow some patience at the same time. So Sitting there in the patience is difficult because you're questioning your trust. Do I trust the park's actually coming? Like, all of this stuff starts— like, just breathe and wait and listen and trust. And sure enough, it probably— maybe it was 3 minutes in the end, but like, this place was mayhem. To get a park in 3 minutes was still pretty good. And there someone came out of nowhere and walked to a car right in front of me, and boom, there was my park. So
