So, some time ago, I was leaving an event. I wasn't quite sure where the elevator to the parking lot was, so I was looking for it everywhere along the hallway I was walking through. I got to the end without seeing it and decided I needed to consult my phone gps map to try to figure out where I had gotten lost. There was no gps signal indoors, so I went through the double doors to the outside, past a few homeless people sitting there. There still wasn't gps signal in the concrete canyon I found myself in, so I went to the intersection with a street a short distance away. At that point, a woman came up to me asking for some money, I think for bus fare or something, which I gave to her. Examining my map now I had signal, I found that I wasn't lost at all, and the elevators more or less had to be where I had been looking, so I went back inside. The elevator doors were right there, in plain sight, right where I had just been looking for them but had apparently not seen them at all. (There were no people or anything in the hall the first time that could have obstructed my view.) It struck me then, somewhat sharply, that if there had been anyone to see the whole process it would have looked exactly as if I had gone outside with the express purpose of giving that money to that woman. In fact, the event was such a disappointment to me that my whole trip might as well have been for the purpose of giving that woman that money.

I am trying to figure out how I should think about this. I suppose I am getting older, as we all are, but I don't normally overlook things I am expressly looking for when they look exactly like I am expecting and I am staring right at them. I don't think I exactly tend to jump to spiritual or occult reasons for things, but it's at least as easy for me to believe that's what happened as that I just overlooked the elevators that blindly. Do you think it's possible or likely that that's what happened? If it is...is there anything else I should be concluding or doing or anything, or is there likely to be any particular meaning to this? I'm guessing your answers are likely to be something like "yes" and "no", but figured I'd ask in case there was anything more.