Here's an interesting tally:
Feb. 2011
Separate from wife.
Crush back teeth by grinding. Broken back right molar, shattered left cap.
Sudden onset tmj. Ear infection.
Fall in tub, plate sized bruise on right thigh.
Mar. 2011
Computer crashes, lose all pictures from the last 5 years. Not recovered until June.
Throw belt on Ulysses, wait in rainstorm for 3 hours. Bike falls over in trailer, breaks off right side mirror.
Rear bearings fail.
April. 2011
Clutch fails on Uly, rear brake pads disappear, scoring the rotor.
Buy used truck.
May. 2011
Replace front springs over night, massive struggle to correct. 11 hours.
Receive Ulysses after 6 weeks, fan installed wrong. Lose bike again.
June. 2011
More bad mojo in relationships.
Start a new style of counseling. It goes awfully. Worse than before I started.
Right knee starts hurting terribly.
Replace front ball joints after struggling with the wrong part for 3 hours in the hot sun.
Starter dies in truck. New battery.
August. 2011
Mother has emergency heart surgery.
Sister falls off wagon, says terrible shit, makes awful accusations.
Revive scooter with new engine. Mount for CDI breaks, lose bike for 2 weeks.
September. 2011
Get bike back for one day, mount breaks again. Adjustment barrel at gearbox breaks, fuck up cable after replacing barrel. Now I need to replace the outboard gear cable.
WHAT THE FUCK? This has been the worst run of bad luck that I have had to endure, EVER. Seriously, what the fuck is going on? I wish there was some reason that I am having to go through this. If I knew what it was I needed to do to make it stop, I would do it. FUCK THIS. At this point I've spent thousands of dollars I don't have and I am at wits end.
And no, I don't just focus on the negative. My mother is well, and I met a very lovely woman, whom I can say is like no one I have ever met. So, there are good things to mention, I love my stagehand job, but Parks and Recreation is starting to get on my nerve. Not my clients, I love them, but the organization.
Ever had an extended run of bad luck? How did it turn out? What did you learn?
Jeez.
read your list of bad luck. hold steady, jon. best anyone can do. we're having a similar run.
ReplyDeletenew year's eve & next day & on... father with severe stroke. then the deaths...a long-time friend & colleague, a lovely niece, just 40, & 3 more dear ones on the brink.
news on the world front bleak.
no money. car probs.
health issues.
it's life.
losing your spouse is a BIG one.
probably colored all the rest.
true north, dear one.
san & dave