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<blockquote data-quote="CV355" data-source="post: 15878282" data-attributes="member: 181885"><p>There's also the "two day" curse. If I take more than two days off from work, bad things happen. I'm not talking "oh dang, I got a flat tire."</p><p></p><p>For instance, my wife and I had to cut our "honeymoon" short in 2013 because a large colony of wasps decided to eat through an exterior wall in our last house (her father called us as he was watching the house for us). We spent our first full weekend as a married couple tearing out a wall and removing a 3' wasp nest. Remediation after that mess costs us quite a bit since the chemical the exterminator used ate the carpet and part of the wall. Then a year later, a water line going to the 2nd floor burst in the same wall and ruined the living room again. Insurance said it was "maintenance related" and my response to that was "what type of maintenance requires you to tear into sheetrock?" They wound up taking about 30% of the cost and jacked my rates up 25%.</p><p></p><p>Or the "Great Mess of 2010" where I was in the middle of boxing up my belongings to move and the house flooded during some torrential rainstorms. Everything in boxes was ruined. I managed to salvage about a week's worth of clothing, my mattress, computer, and guitars. Moved in (my GT was already in the garage there) and found out my car had been scavenged for parts, scratched to hell, windshield cracked, and metal shavings/antifreeze in every cylinder... Took the rest of the year to get it running again.</p><p></p><p>Took 3 days off last year. Was extra paranoid and did as little as possible to avoid the curse (pretty much slept or lay on the bed the entire time). At the end of the mini-vacation, I go "wow, nothing bad happened!" Then my wife calls me and says she got in another car accident- some oblivious moron crossed lanes and drove into her. It took 3 visits to the repair center to get her 3 month old, brand new F150 repaired properly, and it still has door rubbing issues and two areas where you can see a buckle at the right angle.</p><p></p><p>Before my wife and I were married, I told her about my bad luck. She goes "well maybe it'll get better because I have good luck!" Now, 5 years later she says "what in the hell did you do in a previous life? I thought you were joking." Simply can't get ahead. Don't let the two cars in my sig fool anyone- they don't move simply out of paranoia. Can't enjoy the damn things because of all of these idiots driving around on the wrong side of the road down here.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah, then there's this:</p><p><a href="https://www.svtperformance.com/forums/threads/2018-has-to-be-better-what-was-your-2017-horror-stories.1153029/page-4#post-15786997" target="_blank">https://www.svtperformance.com/forums/threads/2018-has-to-be-better-what-was-your-2017-horror-stories.1153029/page-4#post-15786997</a></p><p></p><p>I don't get it though- if I was an asshole to people, I'd say I deserve it. But man, I've always tried to be a good person, help those around me. Pay it forward, random acts of kindness, all that, never expecting anything in return. Well, maybe one thing- would be nice to have a week where life doesn't shit on us.</p><p></p><p>I hear euthanasia is legal in Canada. Might move there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CV355, post: 15878282, member: 181885"] There's also the "two day" curse. If I take more than two days off from work, bad things happen. I'm not talking "oh dang, I got a flat tire." For instance, my wife and I had to cut our "honeymoon" short in 2013 because a large colony of wasps decided to eat through an exterior wall in our last house (her father called us as he was watching the house for us). We spent our first full weekend as a married couple tearing out a wall and removing a 3' wasp nest. Remediation after that mess costs us quite a bit since the chemical the exterminator used ate the carpet and part of the wall. Then a year later, a water line going to the 2nd floor burst in the same wall and ruined the living room again. Insurance said it was "maintenance related" and my response to that was "what type of maintenance requires you to tear into sheetrock?" They wound up taking about 30% of the cost and jacked my rates up 25%. Or the "Great Mess of 2010" where I was in the middle of boxing up my belongings to move and the house flooded during some torrential rainstorms. Everything in boxes was ruined. I managed to salvage about a week's worth of clothing, my mattress, computer, and guitars. Moved in (my GT was already in the garage there) and found out my car had been scavenged for parts, scratched to hell, windshield cracked, and metal shavings/antifreeze in every cylinder... Took the rest of the year to get it running again. Took 3 days off last year. Was extra paranoid and did as little as possible to avoid the curse (pretty much slept or lay on the bed the entire time). At the end of the mini-vacation, I go "wow, nothing bad happened!" Then my wife calls me and says she got in another car accident- some oblivious moron crossed lanes and drove into her. It took 3 visits to the repair center to get her 3 month old, brand new F150 repaired properly, and it still has door rubbing issues and two areas where you can see a buckle at the right angle. Before my wife and I were married, I told her about my bad luck. She goes "well maybe it'll get better because I have good luck!" Now, 5 years later she says "what in the hell did you do in a previous life? I thought you were joking." Simply can't get ahead. Don't let the two cars in my sig fool anyone- they don't move simply out of paranoia. Can't enjoy the damn things because of all of these idiots driving around on the wrong side of the road down here. Oh yeah, then there's this: [URL]https://www.svtperformance.com/forums/threads/2018-has-to-be-better-what-was-your-2017-horror-stories.1153029/page-4#post-15786997[/URL] I don't get it though- if I was an asshole to people, I'd say I deserve it. But man, I've always tried to be a good person, help those around me. Pay it forward, random acts of kindness, all that, never expecting anything in return. Well, maybe one thing- would be nice to have a week where life doesn't shit on us. I hear euthanasia is legal in Canada. Might move there. [/QUOTE]
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