Unlucky?

[Earthcup]

The rental van got stuck in mud up to it's axel. I left the lights on by accident and in no time the battery went dead. An hour after jumping it off it went dead again.

Someone wasn't ready and didn't remember what day we were leaveing. One day gone. Someone's check hadn't been deposited so we had to wait on them. Two days gone. We leave the day of the wedding.

I only get to run around one cemetary snapping pics like crazy before I have to get ready for the wedding. I look fab except I couldn't find my red nail polish, I grabbed my chrome purple halloween polish by accident. So I look more Gothic than planned. My shoes are beautiful but my toes are in a vice. Only an hour or two I think and I'll be sitting most of the time.

Wedding was beautiful, lasted 20 minutes, spent the next hour and forty minutes standing waiting on the bride at the reception. She comes finally, I am pitiful at cutting the cake so a very proactive relative takes over.(I told them!) I manage to miss the bouquet!(yay!) Everyone is so tired they leave before the bride. :eek:

We are then informed my bro-in-law has to be back by Monday to testify in court(cop not criminal lol) so we rush to the beach and put two hours on the meter. I attempt to wade and get knocked on my butt by a wave. So I go sit on the beach. About the time us beachsitters get comfortable the swimmers decide it's time to go. We still have an hour on the meter. It then takes the swimmers another hour to change out of their suits and jump in the car.

Upon arriving home, exactly 24 hrs after we left, we find the shower was left running and the shower curtain had fallen and covered the drain. We were in the nick of time to stop a flood.

Granted there were no fatalities or storms of mass destruction but would you go on vacation with my family? :devil:

[Earthcup]

Oh and before we left I cast a protection spell on the van to keep us from harm. That was before the battery went dead and it got stuck! :lol:

[Phoenix Blue]

Hon, your family needs more than a protection spell. Next time, take a pantheon or two with you! :lol:

[Illuminatus]

Three words to insure a good vacation:

Planning, Planning, Planning

Your family didn't plan the trip very well.

[Old Witch]

:lol: At least you're all still alive.............I'd go with you, but I'd take a second car and not stand too close to anyone............;)

[shnen]

To me this sounds like you are lucky.. there are so many "almost accidents", as well... it could have been a lot worse.. :)

and yeah, the organized thing, might help a bit more the next time if your family tried it! :D

[Lavender]

:lol: Good thing you had the protection spell. Can you imagine what would have happened if you didn't? I'm glad everyone made it home safe & sound. Very busy weekend!

[Azure]

I could have been much worse. I'm happy for you that you missed the bouquet. At the last wedding I was at I deliberately turned my back. And I was a bridesmaid.

Perhaps the secret is: next time, don't travel with your family :)

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by shnen
To me this sounds like you are lucky.. there are so many "almost accidents", as well... it could have been a lot worse.. :)

You make no sense, and I'll tell you why:

My dad fell off the roof and broke his hip. He was laid up for months. What was the worst part? People kept coming to the hospital to tell him how "Lucky" he was. Wouldn't he have been luckier if he hadn't fallen off the damn roof??? I would even go a step further to say that all the visitors who had not fallen off of rooves and broken their hips, are, in fact, the lucky ones.

- Ill

[Niamh]

Sounds like your "lucky" dad had a "near miss!" Some people just make me so.....


Yes! Planning! I know someone who has had so many vacation mishpas that they make a check list that gets posted on the fridge about a week before departure. So far, so good...

[Desert_Shadow]

LOL!!! And I thought I was the only one these kinds of things happened to. Not so much due to my lack of planning, but everyone else's.
Glad you and your family are okay. Better luck in the future!

[Garnet]

Unlucky... maybe, but it sounds as if they try to have a good time. Next time, check the shower yourself (don't forget accompanying sighing, eye-rolling, & a few "After all somebody didn't do this last time." comments)

[Dalia]

And I thoght that my family was a mess!! :lol:

[Flaire-FireStar]

Hmm....I agree with all the people that said planning.. :o Not necessarily unlucky, I think you guys were rather rushed to get places and do things in such a short period of time. ;)

[Niamh]

I hate being rushed. 9 times out of 10 I forget something very important!

The great thing is, though, that I generally don't go anyplace so remote that I can't buy or somehow obtain what I need.