Do you ever feel like something can only happen to you or your family? I feel like this a lot. If it will happen to someone, the odds are I will be somehow involved.
Real life examples over the course of my adult life:
* The store debiting my bank account for $0.01 when the check was written for $11 something. The store had just got a new system that did electronic checks, apparently it did not like my check. I had to write a second check.
* I once drove under a power transformer as it exploded. That was a fun one, I thought something happened to my car as I pulled into my driveway. I stopped the car and jumped out as my neighbor ran over to see if I was okay. The power guy that fixed the transformer said the squirrel didn't make it.
* Three different ladies in the doctor's office had to reset their passwords when attempting to take my co-pay.
* When I was seven months pregnant with my first-born, I was in my workplace bathroom. The underground transformer that ran behind the building exploded about twenty feet from my location plunging the whole card shop into darkness. My co-worker raced to the back room to check on me. The store was closed for two days due to the outage.
* I'm a battery vampire. I can drain a brand new watch battery in two months flat. I gave up wearing watches a few years ago. Our house was broken into two years ago this week, so I no longer have any watches anyway.
* I stepped on a hickory nut husk in our driveway three years ago next month. I ended up tearing two out of three ligaments in my left ankle. My best friend for the next 4-1/2 months was a walking boot (aka The Boot of Doom).
* At the grocery store, I always seem to find the self-checkout that has a balance issue. It is great when the attendant has to approve each item you scan because the checkout scale is off and tells you to take the last scanned item out of the bag.
* Percentage wise: A typical person has a 0.01% chance of developing breast cancer in their 40s, 0.1% chance of having Chiari, 1.4% chance of having a Chek2 mutation, 1.7% chance of having a child with autism, and a 4% chance of having a food allergy. I must be lucky!
* After my second surgery last year, a freak accident occurred in recovery. I got clipped in the foot by a passing hospital bed. It was a comedy of errors, no one person was at fault. I ended up in the Boot of Doom for about 3-4 weeks due to a possible stress fracture of the fourth metatarsal. The hospital was kind enough to cover the bills. It made for an interesting time, I couldn't use my right arm and was lugging around the heavy boot on my right leg.
* Every car I have ever owned has shocked me when closing the door. From personal experience, the pinky is the most painful finger to be shocked. My current car also changes radio stations on its own.
* Last year, I had to contact the health insurance company to fix a glitch on their end. Somehow they had that my then eight-year-old had a mammogram instead of me and they refused to pay anything on it. Apparently, someone on their end entered the information in their system wrong.
* One of the most interesting glitches. . . . Somehow the county managed to deposit our property check twice, two months apart. This, of course, overdrew our bank account. I had to dig through our bank statements to figure it all out. The bank fixed everything after I contacted them about cashing the same check number twice.
Do you have any funny "it can only happen to me" stories?
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