In the nick of time

As it happens, I was recently in walking through Chinatown in Sydney and became caught in a torrential downpour of rain. I wasn't carrying an umbrella and took shelter under a green awning. I was surprised at a Chinese woman. She stood beside a large flat screen tv that stood flat on the concrete. Her husband was backing up his car so that she could place it in the trunk along with other belongings.  She smiled at me.  I struck up a conversation with a British tourist who also waited uner the awning. She shared with me her story about her 3 weeks of sightseeking, all the sights she had seen and her preferences. 

This stranger also drew my attention to the fact that we were supposed to flip back an hour from eastern daylight savings to eastern standard Australian time. I had been unaware of that and I was leavnign early the next morning to catch a plane.  The fact that this woman told me this enabled me to awaken on time. This woman also talked about the value of time and how her Australian experiences had led her to redefine her priorities. This reminded me of the benefits of listening to my inuition.