Feeling Unlucky but not Down
Okay I didn’t win the Eurolottery, but that’s not really bad luck, it’s just not being exceptionally lucky.
Recently I have had a run of bad luck.
Today:
- Next door started revving the engine of their VW camper van at 7.40am – I was trying to sleep having gone to bed at 2am
- On Wednesday I found that I’d lost my padlock for the gym, so:
- I went to Halfords today to buy a new one – only I couldn’t find one there (and it took me a few minutes to get out of the car park). So I drove to B&Q and found 2 padlocks for £7, but when I went to pay for them there were long queues and I couldn’t be bothered, so I ditched the padlocks and went to the gym (I knew they sold them at £5 each)
- When I got to the gym the free gym car parking ticket machine (which accepts tokens) was broken, so I went and put £1 in the normal machine – only it wouldn’t accept one of the 5p pieces I was using! Luckily someone was kind enough to exchange that 5p for 10p. Then I walked back to my car and noticed that the ticked showed that it had taken 65p of mine, not the £1.05 that I had put in!
So I had to go over to a ticket machine (a different one this time) and put in £2 as I didn’t have any smaller change – this time it worked - I went to the local fish and chip shop and had to wait a few minutes for them to cook chips. Then they forgot to give me the curry sauce, luckily I remembered it before walking away. Then I went to my parents house to eat the fish and chips with my brother
- Then I went home and couldn’t get into my house! One of the 2 locks on my front door wouldn’t open – and then the key snapped in half. Fortunately it didn’t get stuck in the lock. So I went back to my parents house borrowed a spare key and fortunately it worked…
- All day, every traffic light I approached turned red and I kept getting stuck behind people driving at 40mph
- The display on my washing machine has messed up again. Sometimes it fixes itself and sometimes I have to take it apart to fix it
Maybe tomorrow will be better…