A close friend I saw most days had no idea for months, until I happened to mention it.
The tagged python was tracked to a tuft of brush, but remained invisible until I happened to glance down toward my feet (my grainy video).
Until I happened upon a security expert who asked that he not be identified because he has worked on related issues with the Department of Homeland Security.
In Italy, it wasn't until I happened upon Olsen, a wondrous little establishment on the Via Sant' Agostino in Turin, that I experienced my first sublime moment.
I didn't walk into Osha until I happened upon it after Elaine's had closed, and yet I never would have found it had it not been for Elaine's.
Today I wandered in, just to browse, and ended up buying around $60 worth of excellent and useful things I didn't know I needed until I happened upon them in Wing On.
I left that town years ago, but had never really found a salad bar to match those memories -- until I happened upon Gratella, the cavernous Italianesque affair beneath the Doral Forrestal hotel on the outskirts of Princeton.
Despite my family connections to Phillips County, I hadn't heard about the "Elaine Riot" (named for a nearby town), until I happened upon a description of it a decade ago in a reissue of the W.P.A. Guide to 1930s Arkansas.
Not me, certainly, until I happened upon a nerdy ukulele cover of his song Political Science (Or Let's Drop the Big One) on YouTube in 2009, heard the stupid line "South America stole our name", and fell down a rabbit hole that I've never tired of exploring.
I have to say, I wasn't all that impressed until I happened to see them play in New York, and I've been acting like an scary tween obsessive ever since.
"I'm not going to put that on the table until I find out what happened in the gulf and make sure it doesn't happen again".
