As a general comment, events happening at times convenient for the story is part of storytelling. It does not bother me at all, unless it is implausible, for instance by placing a character where they're very unlikely to be. If you can reasonably answer the question "Why exactly now" with "Why NOT exactly now", and the only argument against it is probabilistic in nature, it's fine. That is notably not what I was referring to in the OP.
BTW a sidenote: this thread was apparently damaged at the time when the forum was defective around launch. The OP has acquired some oddities in the reconstruction and the title has lost a colon. Is there any way to repair this? Editing is no longer possible.
