Doesn't the saying go "Bad Things Happen in Threes"? I can't remember, but I hope so, cause Lord only knows in the past month, I've seen my fair share of crappy shit. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder if the Fates are seceretly laughing at you.
They must get a hoot out of me. Oh well, at least I'm useful in some way. Ha ha.
I'm used to miserable luck. Honestly, I can't count the amount of mis-timed crappy luck has struck me and left me for a loop. Like last year, getting the hospital bill for my Thanksgiving Night fiasco to the emergency room two days before Christmas. A double whammy if you ask me. Or there was the time I just started a new job and came down with bronchitis, strep throat, and kindey infection. That sounds pretty trival, since everyone gets sick, but on the way home from the doctor, the car in front of us crashed into a highway divider, we barely missed the accident, and I found myself parked on a bridge, running down the highway to the wrecked car, praying I wouldn't be pulling any dead bodies from the wreckage. Sick as a dog, running a fever...Nice...Thankfully, no one was dead. A small blessing. The year before last, I got laid off work and the next week the master cylinder in my clutch blew up...in my new car...Another time, I was working out of town and got a piece of granular fertilizer in my eye and ended up 150 miles from home, a huge gouge taken from the bottom of my eye ball, practically blind...Oh, and can't forget the time my boss and I were working up in Northern Washington and got lost. We drove about two hours out of our way, ended up at the Canadian border, and there was a dead guy laying in the ditch. That was fun. Apparently he tried to shoot one of the border patrol people, but got shot instead. The cops were nice enough to give us directions....
*sigh*
It used to make me mad. I'd get really fusterated and angry when things didn't go my way. Now I just don't care. Oh, I still get annoyed, occasionally upset, but I don't really rant and rave, or fret about it too much. If anything, when something goes wrong, I laugh. I mean, not much I can do about some of the stuff that happens. Crying about it doesn't solve anything. Getting mad only makes my blood pressure go up, which can't be good. No, I've come to appriciate the irony.
Still, the past month has been a bit tough. Nothing I care to talk about here, except my emergency room trip that cost almost 1700 bucks. I'm not necessarily upset over the misfortunes, but a bit tired of them. One after the other is a bit much for even me. No one is at fault, nothing is to blame but...shit happens. That's all I can say. You just have to roll with the punches and deal when the time comes.
I tend to be a bit superstious though. I honestly hope this isn't some sort of warning on how 2005 will go. Last year was a good year. Very little drama and very little excitment. I don't like excitment. I'm only 28, but I've had enough drama and crap to last my life time. I'm hoping that this year will be as easy as last...with very few ups and downs along the way.
Posted by Zoso at January 4, 2005 04:53 PM