Is It All About Luck?

After I left the tax office the other day I spontaneously payed my health insurance company a visit.
Not "my" lady but a young man, I thought, oh, no.

Oh, yes! "My" lady, turned out, is not as competent as I thought!
I get a good amount of money back, he filled out a form - and could only cause by luck I had the info from the tax-office with me!

Another example: my therapist suggested St John's wort in large doses for my (reputed) depression.
You need a prescription from a doctor and she "knew" a new neurologist, but needed to contact the patient to ask for the name.
Luckily that person is on holiday, so I went to our family doc.
Luck again! She knows I´m allergic to the sun and St John's wort has sun sensitivity as side effect! She suggested valerian when I need it, aka punctual, say, when I have a job interview.

I needed something from the pharmacy and by... luck :-) ... the pharmacist who is really competent took my order.
So I asked for valerian, what he thinks of this, that I can´t tolerate chemicals - he immediately said, "like citalopram? Has a very long phase to get it out of the body, too!" He just shook his head when I told him that doc told me I can let go of it just like that and doing so I thought I´ll die. (So much for she had never ever had a patient like me before!).
He came up with two other non-chemical options and I sure will take one come winter - I always feel bad in the dark half of the year (I will tell my therapist and doctor of these meds, too).

(Last two pics: A butterfly again and again tried to land on Miss Mango - my windows are THAT clean, just saying! :-)... the other green leaves are 3 meters away, it really tried to land on my lille avocado-tree!)

I really wonder, how come there are, say five people doing the very same job and the outcome can be bad or great, is it just about luck these days?

Here, have a look:

All three of those drivers have the same driver's license. For driving a car.
To the left the Smart-driver parked right by the beginning of the house. This is dumb as you have to expect the next dumb person parking right behind that car, so when the Smart drives away only a Smart can park there.
And exactly that happened :-(

A huge space behind the car parking in the middle.
(Too many) people do not think these days anymore...

Can you relate, does it happen to you, too, sometimes?

I really need to find out the pharmacist´s name, I think usually he has a name-tag, not this time.
If you know a trick how to remember names, please let me know, I´m very bad with this...

(BTW, to get myself on the horsewagon again: Reminder.. 390%, 32 824 steps, 21.3 km, 2749 calories burned - in this heat, too. Just cause Ingo felt sick (all good now) and I had to run to the doc in over 35C as Fridays they close early)...

Addendum...

Parking space is a problem here. I once was looking for one 45 minutes and then found one that left me with a ten-minutes walk home. "Hellbenders" or simply dumb people here?


Lion of the day:

At the cathedral.