Everybody already had those kind of days. You know that kind when nothing seems to be going right - a series of bad luck that sometimes lasts for a stretch of time & you just sit & wait for the shit to stop falling on your head. In our case, we have a succession of unfortunate car events. Thank goodness it's not anything colliding, just a couple of headscratchers & pickles.
The curse started a few months ago when french fry's car antenna was stolen. Nothing bad, just a hassle to lose radio signal. A few weeks ago, all four of his hub cabs were stolen. Nothing that bad, just that now the all black wheels are so ugly. Our neighbor had all his stolen too in which he concluded that it's hunting season for the all new Clio. Last week, our other car just decided to get stuck in the parking without any prior symptoms at all. In getting in, I accidentally leaned on the steering wheel & locked it but the problem was with the ignition key that won't turn at all. It was like I was using the wrong key & the mechanic told me is something really rare. The thing with cars today is that mechanics cannot tinker with it anymore like they used to - it's all electronic so there's no choice but to pass by the most expensive route to repairing it. We have to have the car towed to the garage, replace the ignition key & reprogram the new car keys & door locks for yes, hundreds of euros. It does not all end there. Two days after the ignition key incident, french fry's car radio got broken due to a centimeter open window under a big rain. This all happened within a month, give or take a week or two. Sometimes it really makes you wonder quand c'est que des merdes (when all shit happens).
Now, we just justify this temporary curse by believeing it could have been worse - which has a high probability of happening - bad luck does not care if you've had too much. I now learned to make a "shit basket," a piggy bank if you will, to ease the eventual pain of our pockets because sometimes it just pours.
