Why do stupid things keep happening to me? My latest misfortune occurred late last night when I put my face too close to the hamster cage and it nearly bit my nose off. It took ages for the blood to stop flowing.

Today, I have been walking around Crystal Peaks displaying two red holes on each side of my nose: it looks rather like I have been bitten by a snake. It is so embarrassing.

I shan't be getting too close again in a hurry, I can tell you.

Aww you poor thing!!!

I'm not that unlucky.... however I did knock over a full dustpan of rubbish, onto a newly mopped floor earlier at work... Glitter and feathers are t'worst to get up... Grrrrr!!!

glitter and feathers ... what sort of place do u work in ?

My weekend has been a bit naff - cake i was baking last nite died and woke up this morning 2 and a half hours after alarm went off, with cold/flu symptoms. Presently dosed up with lemsip. Hope I get to CRB meet tommorrow...

Will keep an eye out in xstal peaks for someone with an oddly pierced nose :P

... I mean, banana skins hurl themselves under my feet, cars mount the pavements and come hurtling towards me, too much beer keeps entering my mouth and making me swallow it on Saturday nights against my wishes.

Worst of all, though: I was once laid on Cleethorpes beach
( which is unlucky enough in itelf) when a seagull scored a direct hit in my left ear. It was horrible - all gritty and warm and nasty.

I took me the rest of the day to clean my ear out.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
Why do stupid things keep happening to me? My latest misfortune occurred late last night when I put my face too close to the hamster cage and it nearly bit my nose off. It took ages for the blood to stop flowing.

Today, I have been walking around Crystal Peaks displaying two red holes on each side of my nose: it looks rather like I have been bitten by a snake. It is so embarrassing.

I shan't be getting too close again in a hurry, I can tell you.


I can sympathise, once fed a parrot through the bars of it's cage and he grabbed my finger, the pain was unbelievable, I thought it was broken, days before the discomfort went.

I was once walking across Commercial Street when a taxi failed to stop and hospitalised me.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I was once walking across Commercial Street when a taxi failed to stop and hospitalised me.

thats happened to me - i don't think its unlucky - just the taxi drivers been stupid!!

(btw - can't we have signitures in this forum?):)

I wonder if it was the same driver? Did he offer to take you home at a knockdown price?

Originally posted by karl2784
thats happened to me - i don't think its unlucky - just the taxi drivers been stupid!!


Why?

Did he mount the pavements?

I have heard many times that seagull pooh is really lucky

I guess it depends how you look upon things

Seagull pooh is only the tip of the iceberg, I can tell you. I am a total disaster.

I actually managed to lose my first ever pay packet on a number 75 bus.

I mean, how unlucky is that?

The other year on holiday, on arriving at our hotel, my son and I left my wife in the room to unpack while we went down to the pool. I slipped on the stairs on the way down and badly bruised my back.

Winded, we went back up to the room so that I could compose myself. I decided that a bit of fresh air might be agood idea, so I made my way for the balcony door.

Disaster! It came open too fast and smashed into smithereens lacerating my left knee.

Thankfully, the rest of the holiday went OK.

one of the most stupidest things you can do is accidently get your foot stuck under chair leg and then sit on the chair without realising........ :o
quite painful and damn near impossible to get out of chair, you have to sort of topple over thus inflicting more pain upon self as you crack your head on table going down...... :loopy:
please tell me I am not the only person to have done this...?

xxx

.. I don't think I've ever done that, not yet - but I will. Just thought I'd let you know that my hamster bite is scabbing up nicely, but something else will go wrong soon.

A wasp once stung me on the lip while I was asleep. I woke up suddenly, and in total agony. I leapt out of bed, not knowing what had happened, saw the wasp flying about the room, and ran to the bathroom to inspect the damage.

The pain was awful, and I decided to go back into my room to phone someone. I plugged in my phone and sat on the bed, which was unfortunately where the wasp was, and I ended up being stung on the backside....

Dave, that has to be worth an honourable mensh at the very least

Originally posted by Funky Dave
A wasp once stung me on the lip while I was asleep. I woke up suddenly, and in total agony. I leapt out of bed, not knowing what had happened, saw the wasp flying about the room, and ran to the bathroom to inspect the damage.

The pain was awful, and I decided to go back into my room to phone someone. I plugged in my phone and sat on the bed, which was unfortunately where the wasp was, and I ended up being stung on the backside....

Now that's unlucky. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I'm sure it's only a question of time before it does.

A few years ago I was on a cross channel ferry and I fancied a go on the fruit machine. Iwalked up to it, and on discovering I didn't have enough change, went up to the bar to get some.

I was only gone two seconds, but during my short absence two men had muscled their way on to the machine. I had to put on a brave face as the machine coughed up the £200 jackpot to the delight of the two men on only their second turn.

Fractured skull,
removal of front teeth,
split cheek,
broken finger,
two broken toes,
chipped shin bone,
broken foot,
countless concussions,
smashed ankle,
2 operations in 2 years.

All seperate occasions.

Yeah, i'm unlucky.

Or is the word stupid? Maybe that's another thread: Are you as stupid as me?

..and you're not a stuntman? God, that is unlucky. Normally I am fairly stable when it comes to physical injury (except for falling down stairs countless times, seriously banging my head all the time, getting food poisoning etc) - it's the stupid little things that get me, like getting three punctures in four days.

Yes, Jack: there is no doubt, stupidity is to blame for many of these things.

I cracked my finger on the back of a chair today, just as I was on my way to get something to dab on my deep shaving cut.I fear I may have broken it, or badly bruised it at the very least.

It's my wedding-ring finger and it won't straighten out. It's red around the joint and quite swollen.

I might tape it straight to the finger next to it.

Lol! You'll have to keep updating us with the bad luck!

I'd go and get the first aid kit out of the cupboard, but last time I did this I cut my finger on the tin.

You should write a blues song :D

Yeah, but I'd probably get ink all down my shirt, and if I got away with that one I'd more than likely cut myself on the paper.

I put a carton of apple juice in the milk-rack thingy at the bottom of the fridge this morning and cracked the chuffing rack in the process by forcing it into a space was too small for it.

Out with the superglue tomorrrow.

Originally posted by DaBouncer
You should write a blues song :D

I try, but with my luck I usually find out i've just copied something i've already heard earlier, i'm unlucky in love aswell, hmmm i'll try and write a song about that:(

I'll always remember the time ( about three years ago) when I got through a whole week without anything (seemingly) going wrong.

I sat at home in front of my meagre fire on the Friday night reflecting on what might have gone wrong that week, but amazingly didn't.

Subsequently, all this reflecting made me forget that I had left the bath running and, to cut a long story short, I stopped reflecting at that very instant and went to fetch the mop and bucket and rushed upstairs.

I really have to start being more careful. I was planning to come on the forum earlier after my shower, but I really cut myself quite badly shaving (yet again) again and it took ages for the bleeding to stop.

S'OK now though.

Originally posted by Mosherchik
one of the most stupidest things you can do is accidently get your foot stuck under chair leg and then sit on the chair without realising........ :o
quite painful and damn near impossible to get out of chair, you have to sort of topple over thus inflicting more pain upon self as you crack your head on table going down...... :loopy:
please tell me I am not the only person to have done this...?

xxx
LOL! I've done this too! I had a split second moment where I had to think about how to get out of it as well!

Sam Miguel, are you kidding about all these unlucky events?!

Kidding! Me? Certainly not!

I suffer form an eye complaint called 'irisitis' or 'irisis' (inflamation of the iris). It is very painful and I have ti have injections in the eye when it has got real bad.

I have an 'open appointment' at the eye clinic at the Hallmshire, and as long as I get there pretty quick when it flares up, they can sort me out with a couple of eyedrop prescriptions.

It usually flares up every four or five years.

The past two occasions that this has happened, I have been abroad on holiday!! Honestly, what are the chances of that?

Obviously trying to get sorted out in a foreign country is a bit more difficult than having to do it here, but I got sorted in the end.

Is there not a section in the book of records for most unluckiest person? If so you should enter for it SM!:P

Two years ago on holiday, I turned over in bed falling out on to the hard floor in the process, and split my eye open.

Have just electrocuted self on printer! Not fatally obviously!
Note to self unplug printer from mains before pluggin it back into computer! It felt highly bizarre and now it just sorta hurts! :sad:
Summat to cheer you up SM....
A dozy woman around electrical equipment = danger! danger! high voltage!
xxx

You silly thing, I haven't done that for a while, but I will.

A couple of years ago, I ran out of cheques and phoned the bank up for a new cheque-book. A couple of weeks later, it hadn't arrived and so I phoned the bank again who said that they had posted it but they would post me another one.

Anyway, a few days later I got a letter from the bank telling me that I was overdrawn by almost £2,500 and that I had been charged £18 for the administartion, etc.

It turned out that my first cheque book had been intercepted in the post by someone who had wriiten a cheque for around £2,500 and given it to someone as payment for something.

The bank had not cancelled my first chequbook and it took ages to get cleared up. I eventually got my money back including the £18 they had charged me for being overdrawn.

They showed me the cheque and the eerie thing was, the signature looked remarkably like mine.

Ahhh but you got your money back so in a way you were quite lucky there!
xxx

Two years ago just after Christmas my dishwasher broke.

I then went to put something in my oven, noticing it hadn't got hot I took a step back wondering what was wrong with it into a puddle of water....... my washing machine had broken too and leaked.

Three new kitchen appliances before new year. Ouch!

Originally posted by Mosherchik
Ahhh but you got your money back so in a way you were quite lucky there!
xxx

I suppose so, yes: but it was stressful at the time.

Originally posted by Sally
Two years ago just after Christmas my dishwasher broke.

I then went to put something in my oven, noticing it hadn't got hot I took a step back wondering what was wrong with it into a puddle of water....... my washing machine had broken too and leaked.

Three new kitchen appliances before new year. Ouch!

That's unlucky. You can do without that sort of thing, now.

I think we've had about four microwave ovens in the past three years. Luckily, a couple of them were still in warranty.

I dont think they make white goods like they used to.

My grandparents always had the same stuff since I was born. Never broke down. My Dad's had his washing machine 21 years without a hitch.

We, however, have been through about 3 washers, 2 tumble dryers, 2 microwaves and 2 cookers and 3 fridges in about 4 years.
Pathetic. They manufacture stuff to fail these days, so that you'll keep buying stuff from them. It's all very dishonest.

I totally agree. It's a scam. Throwaway stuff that's just made to last it's one-year warranty out.

Now this is both lucky and unlucky.

Years ago I was on holiday in Ibiza and I met a girl one night. I saw her the next day and we hired mopeds to tour the island. To cut along story short, she came off her moped on a bad bend.

Next thing, loads of people were all milling around as the girl lay on the ground unconcious and cut and bruised.

I'd only met her the night before.

Next: I was in an ambulance with her and the paramedic or whoever he was was looking very grim about it all as he took her pulse etc.

Anyway, when we got to the hospital, they ushered me away and I got a taxi back to my resort.

They had to fly her mother out, and it looked touch-an-go as to whether she survived. They finshed up flying her home to Britain by air ambulance.

Luckily, I rememberd where she was from and wrote to the town hall and they got me in contact with her mother who phoned me about three weeks later.

Apparently, she had been in a coma for weeks, but snapped out of it OK eventually. I saw the girl and we went out for a bit, then drifted apart.

It was a bit scarey and unreal at the time.

So you even pass your luck onto other people then?

Yes, I suppose I do, JTD. It happens all the time. I'll think of some instances to post.

But how about this: I have developed two big cold-sores, on the back of my left hand. Is this unusual?

I had to go to the doc's tonight for something else, but mentioned these sores on my left hand, and the doc said they were cold-sores.

How strange, mmm?

So you even pass your luck onto other people then?

Don't go to a forum meet then!!!

I spend 4 quid a week on the lottery, and apart from a few tenners on the main draw and fivers on thunderball, I have NEVER won any prizes :(

My theory regarding lottery wins is that people who actually NEED the money are destined to NEVER win it, but people who DON'T need the money, they're always the jammy sods who get 6 numbers or 5 and the bonus! :mad:

..and they are always going to carry on in their jobs as cleaners or shelf stackers.

Or give most of it away to charity or pay to send veterans to Northern France to pay tribute to their fallen comrades or give some of it to the Children's Hospital.

You won't believe this, but I just stubbed my little toe on the desk as I sat down. ArgH!!

It's OK now. No damage.

I shouldn't believe this, but because of my severe lucklessness, I do!

I put a complaint in to the council about the state of the pavement outside my house. Tree roots are forcing the ashphalt pavement upwards causing it to crack severely.

Whilst I was at it, as I'm a decent bloke, I thought I'd mention the problem outside my neighbour's house as well.

Result, you guessed it: they've come and fixed my neighbour's pavement, and left mine!

And I was the one who brought it to their attention.

Justice or what?

I have just cooked some bacon for my tea on our new George Foreman-style grill.

I lifted the top up from the sides, instead of with the proper handle at the front, without thinking. It was, to put it mildy, exremely hot!

Of course, I immediately let go and put my hands under a cold running tap for a minute or two in an effort to alleviate the pain.

I now have a neat row of blisters on the backs of most of my fingers and I can't wash the pots as I can't bear to immerse my hands in hot water, it simply hurts too much.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I lifted the top up from the sides, instead of with the proper handle at the front, without thinking. It was, to put it mildy, exremely hot!

<snip>

I now have a neat row of blisters on the backs of most of my fingers.

That isn't bad luck - it's carelessness and/or absentmindedness (I have sympathy; I've been there too)

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I have just cooked some bacon for my tea on our new George Foreman-style grill.

And isn't that supposed to be your wifes work?

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
and I can't wash the pots as I can't bear to immerse my hands in hot water, it simply hurts too much.

:rolleyes: Just tell her you've had a hard day at work - that's how I got out of it

Thanks, Abdul: you're right, the incident with the grill thingy was sheer carelessness.

But I wasn' t refering to this as being 'bad luck'.

But having to cook my own tea! I mean, come on!!

Went to uni this morning for a seminar that didnt happen :? and in my infinate wisdom thought I'll walk from Psalter Lane Campus to Collegiate campus in my lovely New Rock boots (big ruddy heavy goth boots for those of you who dont know) to see if my coursework had been marked and returned...it hadnt so instead of getting bus back into town I thought I'll walk up to Hallamshire and then along to Sheff Uni tramstop.

By the time I got to Hackenthorpe tramstop I took the boots off and walked the rest of way home in socks!

My feet are in some distress and my calves are aching with the sheer effort of lugging those monstrositites about!

Saved myself some bus fair tho :thumbsup:
I am but a simple child :loopy:

I was moving into my new house, the removal van waiting outside and i had just collected the keys. a car with a caravan attached drove past and the caravan un-hitched itself from the car mounted the pavement, missing any of the cars parked on either side of the rd it then ended up perfectly parked on my drive. :shocked:


Another.. my car broke down, I waited for the recovery vehicle which eventually came to tow my car to the garage but during the journey to the garage the recovery truck had a flat tyre!!!!:|


lucky or unlucky!!!!

I have heard many times that seagull pooh is really lucky

I guess it depends how you look upon things

I got papped on my head twice by a seagull when I was a kid on a school trip- think the poor girl who had to help me clean it was more unlucky than me as it was just out of reach!