You Can Have a Serendipity When you Substitute!

Creative thinkers don't usually associate substitute with creativity. We tend to think that we substitute something when we've run out of something. Many stories and novels have been written by substituting a previous hero with a new hero and changing the setting a bit. There are only so many basic plots!!
"The Thinker's Toolbox" tells the story of George Washington Carver who decided to substitute a southern weed, the peanut, for an industrial crop. Fortunes have been made with his "Peanut Oleo".
Take, for example, that you had your sites set on a wonderful holiday in a fantastic destination and because of various circumstances, like not enough money to stay at Sandals, you ended up going somewhere Like Oak Ridges. You could whine and complain and have a miserable time or you could go and experience it for all it is worth and maybe, just maybe a wonderful serendipity would arise.

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
Mary Lou Cook

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.”
George Lois

“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm”
Earl Nightingale
Can you tell us of a serendipity that happened when you had to substitute something?