Improvise, Adapt and Overcome ... I would have made a good Marine.

So a lady walks into an ABC Restaurant ... sounds like the opening of a joke, right?

Well, in a way, it is.

I was on my way to a scheduled meeting at a job placement agency, when I realized that I had forgotten my reading glasses at home. I truly can't see a thing without them, and I knew the agency was going to give me some online aptitude tests to complete, as my employment counsellor had told me last week. So what's a girl to do? I was on the bus. I couldn't turn back. The agency office is in a remote location, with no convenient mini mall or London Drugs nearby where I could pick up a cheap, extra pair. But ... there WAS an ABC restaurant close by. I figured the odds were good, so I walked in and asked, (note my lack of fibbing here), "Has anyone turned in a pair of reading glasses to your Lost & Found?" I assumed that since I have a tendency to forget my glasses is restaurants all the time, other people must be just as absent-minded.

Bingo!

"Yes indeed," the hostess replied, and promptly presented me with a pair which, miraculously, were almost the perfect prescription. I thanked her profusely. I arrived to my meeting on time with the "borrowed" glasses, and thanks to the specs, I completed all the online tests. An hour later, I returned the glasses to a baffled hostess. "They weren't mine after all," I said, "but thanks anyway. I hope no one came in to claim these in the past hour." No, she replied, "Only you."

It just goes to show you, no matter what you're up against, a little creative thinking and ingenuity can go a long way.