Do you have a friend that has constant back luck... or do you?

seadoug

seadoug

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I have a friend in her early 70s that lives in Seattle. We used to work together and are still close.

When we worked together, the night before a business trip her wallet was stolen out of her cart at Trader Joe's. She had to use someone else's business credit card for her trip. Where our office was in Seattle, she would have to park on the street. One day a bus backed into her car on the street.

We've since both retired and she now lives in the suburbs outside of Seattle. One night she heard her sliding glass doors breaking and went out onto the landing on the second floor to find a guy trying to rob her house! Hard to believe, but she yelled at the guy and he actually ran out of the house! The police told her there are a number of South Indians living in the area and they keep lots of cash in their houses so there had been a rash of robberies.

She also recently visited Dallas and we parked in a parking garage. She used her credit card for entry and when we came back to retrieve the car we couldn't get back in. We ended up calling 911 and the fire department showed up with sirens and lights blazing to unlock the door. She said it was because I was with her. :ROFLMAO:

Anyway, she has a great sense of humor and we laugh about it later. Do you know of someone with similar bad luck?
 

Where do I start...if it wasn't for bad luck... sometimes I think I would have no luck at all....

I had a terrible car..one of those that rolled off the line on a Friday tea-time.. everything that could go wrong with this car went wrong.. and yet the model was universally thought to be a stable reliable car..

Anyway..I got all repairs done.. made the car all shiny and nice.. to sell.. ..and thank goodness someone wanted it.. I'd already bought a new car and I really needed the money from the old car.. 10 minutes before the buyer was due.. I had a delivery from Wayfair.. and as he drove away, I looked out of the window .. and saw him crash straight into the car that was up for sale. he didn't stop. I ran to the phone called Wayfair.. they denied that their driver was ti blame.. and unless I had proof they weren't even going to do anything.:mad:

I was desperate to get rid of this car, and the new buyer turned up a few minutes later. I had to knock Ā£500 off the asking price , so they would still buy it.. I have never bought anything from Wayfair since..


That's just one of many.... things...

Another was we were leaving for the first flight of the day, which meant leaving at 4am.. the car was out on the road, ready... it was all booked in to the airport parking... we went out in the dark to put the cases in, and discovered someone had broken the driver's side lock, and stole the CD player... ripped it out... :mad:.... I had no choice, I either leave the car like that and take a cab.. or i take the car and park it in the Airport like that..I had to be on the plane at 7 am.. I chose to drive the car..
 
Your friend certainly has had some bad breaks. I hope she has had some equally good breaks in her life. I can't think of anyone in my life who has had a run of bad luck. Bad things have happened along with bad breaks to me and most that I know but things seem to even out for all I know.
 
@JBR Ya know...I didn't even notice that it said "back luck"! :)

Doug, That is a lot of mishaps to encounter...geesh! Good thing your friend has a sense of humor about it. Someone trying to break in is a very scary thing. Shortly after I moved here (53 years ago), I encountered a man on my patio trying to open the glass sliding door. When he saw me , he ran away. I called a friend to come stay with me that night, but I don't remember if I called the police or not.

I have a friend and an honorary daughter (HD) who just can't seem to catch a break. A few years ago, my friend's mother died. She couldn't get the lawyer to produce her mother's will for months. Her mother's husband allowed his friends to come into their home and the mother's jewelry wound up disappearing. The whole thing was a literal nightmare and I felt so sorry for her.

She was about to lose her own house, so I offered to loan her (interest free) a substantial amount of money to keep that from happening. The expected sale of her mother's house which was supposed to be to the then rent to own tenants took place about three years after it was supposed to. One of the reasons I loaned her what I did was because I expected to be repaid fairly quickly. She did pay me back though; of that I had no doubt.

Her mother was a smart woman, but she did the will wrong. She left part of her house and assets to her minor grandson and that contributed to holding up the money my friend desperately needed at the time. My friend's adopted son was about 13 at the time. Now he's a young man, hooked on this crazy, trifling young woman who often sidetracked him due to her neediness, from helping his mother with her landscaping and scrap metal businesses . Now he's working another job. My friend is on her own and works so hard but never has quite enough money. She also doesn't have time to take a vacation or even go out and really enjoy herself. I keep praying her life will get better.

This has gotten long, so I'll post about my HD later.
 
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I don't think things work out for me. I don't know if that's bad luck or what. At least my house never got robbed when I lived there.

I never leave my purse in the shopping cart. It's always with me. Today at the grocery store, I noted a woman with her purse in the cart too many feet away from her for my comfort.
 
Most of the people I know with consistent bad luck tend to live in a way that maximizes the chance that things will go wrong, and go wrong in the worst way when they go wrong.

For example, they have an appointment at 9:00 AM, itā€˜s normally a 20 minute drive. So they leave exactly at 8:40 AM, assuming that morning rush hour traffic does not exist. They skip oil changes in their car to save money and then find their engine needs major work at 120,000 miles. Surprise! They have a flight at 6:00 pm and arrive one hour before boarding begins to find huge security lines at the airport. They win $5000 in the state lottery and spend most of it on showing off to others, then their car needs $3000 of repairs and they moan and groan about not having the money.
 
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CallMeKate said:
I don't know about that... I'll probably remember this "back luck" thread 15 years from now. šŸ¤­
@seadoug , don't pinch me, but reading through this thread, I kept thinking about an old silly song, so I'm sharing it. It really is on topic because "if I didn't have bad luck" was mentioned here. (y)

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We used to watch Hee Haw religiously when I was a kid. I remember this with Grandpa wailing! :ROFLMAO:
 
Seadoug on the subejct of your friend almost getting robbed that was an almost exact scenario that happened to me in Spain.

Gated community..the main bedroom is on the second floor with a balcony on mi Casa.. looking into the community and facing the pool...

I was in the habit of leaving the French sliding doors open on the second floor, just a little bit but enough to let air through.

It was about 11pm , at night, dark.. and I'd been downstairs with all the lights on, and remembered I needed to go up and close the house up in readiness for bed.

I got up on the first landing and switched the hall light on, which illuminated my bedroom.. just in time to see a burglar about to step through the Window... . I had about a Nano second to react... I ran at him, as he started to attempt to climb back over the balcony.. and I pushed him hard and he fell about 15 feet down onto my concrete stairs leading to my terrace... .

he got up and scrambled off, limping badly.

I called the Police.. and they were astonished that he'd got up there, and called him Spiderman.. and when they shone their torch on my terrace there was blood everywhere...

the police told me that ..( and this the truth).. if ever I feel threatened again by any burglars or thieves.. shoot him.. and have him dragged off my property... and no-one will be arrested for it. That's what they told me... as long as we don't find him on your property then we will just dispose of the body..
In this case I didn't think I was unlucky..I felt I was lucky to walk in to my bedroom when I did because my Handbag was on the bed.. and another 20 seconds he would have got it and been gone..
 

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