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Is there a word for "when you ask for directions and you find you're almost there"?
For example,
"After the battery on my GPS died out I drove around looking for the party only to pull over and ask someone where you lived. They pointed to the house just down the block I'd been circling around for what felt like forever."
"Wow, you really had a (...) moment."
That could be fortuitous in this case.
In a broader sense, you had what might be called a blonde moment.
have a blonde moment
INFORMAL to forget something or do something silly, in a way that is sometimes thought to be typical of women with blonde hair
-- Cambridge English Dictionary
I can't think of a more specific word, but the whole scenario reminds me of when someone is searching everywhere for their glasses only to find, upon asking someone, that they are on top of their head. Perhaps a glasses-on-top-of-your-head moment?
