There's a time and place

Everyone experiences it sometimes; that moment when, after hours of silence, everyone calls at once, or after waiting forever, THE call comes when I am not available. Shopkeepers know it from dead times followed by a rush of customers.  It can be good or bad.

I have been told it is coincidence, but how often can something happen and be coincidental?

Every day, all day long, I expect phone calls, or texts only to have them come when I decide to go ahead and shower, or after waiting three days I get THE phone call just as my favorite television show comes on, or after hearing from no one for a very long time, everyone calls me within the same five minutes?

It is like being in the army. Hurry up and wait.  I spend hours, days, weeks, alone and then am bombarded with attention so varied and so great I can do none of it justice.

Do they have a sixth sense that ties them into the vast collective unconscious that says, "now is the time!"  Or does the universe have a sick sense of humor that says, "Wait . . . wait . . . wait . . . NOW, she's busy so go!"?

I suppose it is possible that I am aware when I am about to get a call, or text, and, sabotage myself by moving away just before it arrives.

Whatever it is, it puts a crimp in my social life, making me feel rushed when I least want to.