Cone Man's Day of Blessings

Cone Man drove his chariot to the Great Hall of Wisdom, having no expectation that this Freya's Day would be any different from any other Freya's Day. He was excited nevertheless. "Thank the god of Cone Man that it is Freya's Day!" Cone Man muttered as he motored.

Happily the day proceeded to provide more than a mere interval between Thor's Day and the Day of Saturn. The Cone Force was strong in Cone Man and it was beginning to physically draw cones to his presence from many miles distant - a member of staff said the cones had fallen from the pine tree in her family section, and asked if he would like them collected and delivered to him at the Great Hall of Wisdom. Cone Man's modesty fought furiously with his vanity, but prevailed, and he cone-trolled himself and graciously thanked the staff member for her offer.

Hot on the heels of that surprise, another staff member at the Great Hall of Wisdom was distributing surplus vegetables from her garden and gave him a free courgette! He was grateful for these gifts, but began to notice a pattern of gifts. Two hours after receiving the courgette, another staff member at the Great Hall of Wisdom presented him with a free copy of The daily stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.

During the course of the day, another staff member (one that he chariot pooled with) presented him with $15 to help him fight the terrible Commuting Petrol Cost Monster. That night his mother cooked dinner for him, and his sister gave him yet more vegetables from her garden.

Cone Man was grateful to the god of Cone Man for all this relentless largess from other people, but he wondered if the god of Cone Man was trying to get his attention, and if so, to what end? After all, one blessing was merely a blessing, two blessings in a day was a coincidence, three blessings in a day was unusual, four blessings were almost unheard of, and five blessings in one day was a miracle. The spiritual antennae of Cone Man's deeply superstitious mind were on high alert ...