Athena tested me
One time in 2025 maybe February, an older woman needed help with a heater for her car. I was at Walmart for one for my wife and I. I reluctantly was going to do the right thing and buy her a heater at substantial cost to myself after I realized the manager would not step up and if I didn’t no one else would. She was gone when I turned to give it to her. A Walmart worker told me she saw her following me and the manager to the propane heaters. There was no way she could have escaped my sight as there was no outlet for her to have left by; she just vanished. I searched for her carefully which is why the worker was able to tell me what happened but she had vanished without a trace
Later reading the Odyssey I was struck by how the Goddess appears in disguise there and I remembered the woman’s grey eyes and her sharp wit (she made a clever joke which in retrospect was strange coming from a woman supposedly terrified of freezing to death with her cat in her car that night) and I realized this was Athena