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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 10:59 am
For all my life as long as I can remember, August (which is my birthday month) has been a BAD LUCK month for me. Almost every single August a catastrophe happens to me. I have broken 3 ankles and 2 wrists (each a separate year) Had mononucleosis, Pneumonia, tore a ligament, my father died, my grandmother had a stroke, I have gotten sick innumerous times. One year I thought I was safe and on the 30th, I walked out of my mom's apartment and slid down the hallway, wound up in the hospital. Sooooo - I have been really careful this month, and thought I was doing good. I was in a supermarket called Key Food and was looking at something and all of a sudden I hear a noise and 5 cases of gatorade fall on my left shoulder. Thank God, I am okay, just sore. I filled out an accident report - not taking any chances, my shoulder is sore, so I will see what happens. But, man, August is gonna kill me one day. Anyone else have anything like that?
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:08 am
Ginger I think i will stay away from you every August.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:24 pm
Don't blame you a bit. LOL
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Ginger, if Hurricane Danny hits us, can I blame you? Christmas Day always makes me nervous because there is usually someone around in my life that is determined to ruin the day for everyone because they are not a happy person to begin with. P.S. Glad you weren't seriously hurt.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:08 pm
I am with Grooch on that one Ginger. Grooch where are you? I am right outside of Boston
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:23 pm
I'm out on Long Island. But I heard NJ and NYC are supposed to get a lot of flooding from this storm.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:35 pm
See Ginger, that's why I adopted you at TVCH. We really must be related! Now, I don't have any bad months per se (though we have lost our last 3 beloved dogs in the month of October in various years). But our family does have its odd sort of luck. Some highlights through the years: 1. OlderSis standing on the toilet to reach something on the shelf above, steps down only to land on YoungerSis's toy drum, slicing her foot wide open. 2. Coming home from the store and having the front door fall off the hinges, and then as we're trying to fix that, warming up the oven for a quick TV dinner only to have the oven catch on fire. 3. Waking up to a house full of smoke, evacuating, calling the FD, only to have the firemen wandering around the smoke filled house muttering, "beats the hell out of me." Only conclusion they could come up with was that the furnace had a temper tantrum and blew smoke through the house instead of warm air. We did have the furnace checked out IRCC, and had a part replaced. 4. OlderSis practicing on her cello, then setting her cello bow down on her bed where she then sat on it and broke it clean in half. 5. OlderSis (yea, she's the champ in our family) putting her arm through the glass storm door and requiring stitches. 6. OlderSis (I told you, didn't I?) opening up the wall-installed oven, only to have the oven door fall off the hinges and onto her foot. There's also the fact that nobody in our family can perform a simple project/task without encountering all kinds of grief/problems and FOBAR's before we finally get it right. As frustrating as that is, we do acknowledge that eventually those things work out in the end. It’s just the journey that can be really annoying.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 6:02 pm
Ginger, all I can say is WOW. I have the same thing happen to me; it begins about 3 weeks before my birthday and lasts for about a week after. All sorts of weird/bad luck. A friend of mine claims it's not entirely uncommon. In fact, she pointed it out to me one year when my bad luck was really noticeable. I've also learned to be extra cautious around that time.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Friday, August 28, 2009 - 6:52 am
Whoami, that is why you adopted me LOL and your sisters should be very careful of hinges
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, August 28, 2009 - 9:32 am
(((Ginge))) DH usually has an accident during, or just preceding celebratory occasions, like his b'day or his vacations. The day before his surprise b'day party he tore the ligaments in one arm. 5 years later, a week before his b'day, he fell and tore the ligaments in his other arm. On vacation in Niagara Falls one year, he tripped and injured his leg and we ended up in the ER. One holiday weekend, he injured his ankle. And that's just what I can remember... !
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Friday, August 28, 2009 - 4:01 pm
I have some history of bad luck on holiday wk-ends so I'm going to lay low next wk-end. 1) 17 yrs ago on memorial day wk-end I was in a bad accident that broke off one front tooth at the gum line & "killed" the nerves in the other front tooth. I've worn a partial ever since. 2) 5 years ago over the Thanksgiving holiday I got a bad stomach virus and one of my trips to the john to unload was so violent that my partial went right along with it. Not thinking, I flushed b/4 I realized and you guessed it - I was without front teeth until early the next wk. Thankfully, I don't usually use my sick days at work because they are reimbursed at the end of the year so only family had to see me this way. 3) 2 yrs ago on memorial day wk-end I was playing fetch with my Lab while wearing flip flops. I reared back to through her ball & my foot came done on a large stick. My foot rolled off the stick causing me to loose my balance & I fell right side down on the staggered wooden flower bed border. A trip to ER, 2 broke ribs, and a wk later pnemonia (which I'm told is common with broken ribs). 4) Last yr. on Labor day wk-end I was baking a cake. I opened the oven to get the cake out and one side of the oven hinges completely let loose. The door fell off (only attached by the other side's hinges), hit my right leg right below the knee & knocked me off balance. I went head & arms 1st into the 350% oven. The right side of my face had grid marks from my forhead to my chin actually going through my lip (I had on my glasses so my eye wasn't hurt but the glasses were ruined). My right hand and arm were fried from instinctively getting out of the oven. ER trip (at least I didn't have to wait in the lobby to be seen), 2nd degree burns for the most part with just the bit of 3rd degree on my arm. I have a small scar above my lip that I can pretty much hide with make-up and about a 3 x 2 inch scar just below my right elbow (these were where I had the 3rd % burns). Yep - I'm kind of afraid of next wk-end.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, August 28, 2009 - 8:34 pm
I remember the oven door incident. Do NOT get out of bed next weekend, Texasdeb! Check now to make sure the bed is safe.
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Northstar
Member
09-29-2008
| Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 12:16 am
Not anymore, but the two weeks around Super Bowl Sunday...ugh. I chalked it up to a combo of winter blahs and hormones...theirs and mine.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:51 am
I forgot to add up there, there was the Valentine's day, a few years ago, where we went out to dinner and DH broke a tooth on an overly hard bread-roll. (Actually that happened to me too - biting on a small rib-bone in a restaurant, at a media event... when a fancy restaurant was showcasing their new chef (!) but that's another story... )
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 6:42 pm
At my office, we don't get "good Friday". We were talking about my "holiday" bad luck & my asst. tuned in, "didn't you get that bad staff infection around Easter last yr". Dang it - I did!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 9:03 am
For some strange reason I want to wrap Texasdeb in bubble wrap this weekend.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 11:41 am
No don't she would just suffocate! Perhaps a padded room? Not 'cause I think she's crazy, just to keep her safe.
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Alwayzmovin
Member
11-06-2003
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 4:10 pm
Ok, here's mine! June 17th I was hurrying down the basement steps to hide from a terrible wind shear storm, stepped off the bottom step onto wet concrete(cuz the wind had blown out a window)twisted my right ankle. This same ankle has been twisted 3 times previously the last 20 years. I messed up everything possible inside along with nerve damage. There I sat..all alone while my DH was 250 miles away listening to me on the cell phone hysterical, pleading that I didn't want to die alone! 3 weeks ago I got a terrible case of the flu, ended up dehydrated enough that I passed out while sitting on the toilet! Thankfully I landed on the rug in front of the glass shower and not into the shower door. TODAY...I completely forgot that my boss had asked me to work for her from 1 to 5 and at 3:25 a woman called and wanted to know why we weren't open! DAMN....I want this summer to be over soon!
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 4:45 pm
It seems we all have patterns. All I know is thankfully August is over
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 8:23 pm
I need you all's good Karma around me tomorrow night: My 2 oldest grandsons are on the varsity football team at their school. They live 125 miles from me & they're playing a school tomorrow night that's only 60 miles from me. Yes, I'm going to the game. My prob. is - I've been to this stadium before and set on the visitor's side (Jr. high games). This "town" doesn't invest alot of it's tax dollars in the school and this is one of the worst high school football stadiums that I've seen. They are metal and slippery and this stadium doesn't care about the visiter's side so there are no steps to get you up to the top (Oh, I know I'll be setting up at the top because dd has a high$$ camera that she just bought & will be using - she's good with it, I saw what she did at last wks game & I could actually see MY boy's facial expresions in her pictures). Anyway, I just know I"ll either fall off the back, fall through a crack, roll down, or get blind slided by an unrulely kid while going/coming back from the potty/concession stand. awa the stress!!!!!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 11:21 pm
Stay in the car! Bring an old folding chair and stay on the ground level. No doubt the chair will sink into the ground a bit as they are prone to do so just leave it, don't tempt the fates by trying to yank it out.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Friday, September 04, 2009 - 7:43 am
ahhhh, the memories of those stadiums. can you tether yourself to the seat so when you do get pushed by the selfcentered teens, you can at least dangle off the back until dd can find the time to put the camera back in the case, secure it, and give you a hand? of course, i realize that it could be a close game at that point and you might have to dangle for a couple of quarters. how about one of those parachute harnesses?
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Saturday, September 05, 2009 - 9:11 am
I am happy to report that My boys team won their game and I came through scratch free.
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