Crappy Karma?

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Is there some segment of your life in which you are cursed? No matter what you do, how you plan, how patient you try to be, how many sacrifices to the gods you make, there is something that ALWAYS goes wrong and in a BIG way? I have a friend who cannot travel without getting bumped, having lost luggage, sitting next to someone with severe gastro-intenstinal disorders, lost hotel reservations, etc. Another who HATES (with good reason) the Citibank VISA Department. Me? It is the U.S. Post Office... I can send a priority package and instead of 2 days, it takes 27 ("fill out a form, ma'am"); my mail gets endlessly lost (and/or mauled); my mail carrier (despite my NUMEROUS pleas) leaves packages on the SIDEWALK; we go days without delivery (hmmmmmmm, everyone on my block really had NO mail?); I always get the trainee clerk who jams the register... So, what's YOUR crappy karma? Is there a business, agency, company, HMO, service provider, person, etc., that you have consistent and unrelenting problems with that go above and beyong the normal lousy pesterments??? Do

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2000

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Marisa, don't forget that you also have bad karma when it comes to your posts making it intact to the forum. (heh)

If you ever see me in line at the grocery store, DO NOT get in line behind me. No matter how short my line seems, something always happens to make it the longest wait. The person in front of me will write a hot check or drop oranges all over the floor or SOMEthing.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2000


Sales clerks are always rude to me. Always. It doesn't matter how nice I am to them, how considerate I am of the work they do - I give off some sort of pheremone that makes them all resent me like crazy. It's not just me being paranoid; friends scoff at the idea and then they go shopping with me and have to eat humble pie.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2000

I can't keep a job for more than a year. The companies I work for either have massive layoffs, restructuring, or get bought out and closed down. Or they start to make money, hire a load of new employees to help with the new business, then they lose business or project too much business which doesn't work out and they have to get rid of a few of the new hires.

Basically, if a company hires me it means that no matter how well they are doing at the time, in a year the business will be in shambles.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2000


I sometimes think I was this really awful person in my last life. Nothing ever seems to go right for me, and the few times something good happens it happens after an agonizingly long trial of the worst kinds of things, one after another, so that by the time the something good comes along I just can't enjoy it or eat it or spend it or play with it or whatever.

Maybe I just got such incredibly good luck with my miracle baby that there ain't no good karma left in my account.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2000


Almost nothing that says "Some assembly required" works for me - something's always screwed up somehow and it takes about five times longer to do that I estimated. Often the instructions are inadequate, too.

I'm on this streak where web forms break when I try to use them, particularly if I'm signing up for a seminar or something. Like, the last three things I either tried to sign up for or tried to sign someone else up for on the web all failed and I had to resort to using the phone and talking to a real person (ugh). :-) Is it me or is it them? It's them, right?

Anyway, most everything else goes right in my life.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2000



Every month I can never get the bank statement to balance on the general checking account. Payroll is no problem, but the general is a nightmare.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2000

The later I leave for work the slower the traffic, the more morons in cars in front of me, the longer the checkout lines at the store, the longer the lines at Santana's Mexican Food, the longer the gas lines with the gal who obviously has never filled her own tank, the more roads are being worked on and have detours. When I leave for work early, it takes me 15 mins to get to work. When I leave 30 mins before work it takes me 20. When I leave 20 mins before work it takes me 19.95 mins to get there. And the farther away I've been from my house on vacation(Sierras are 400 miles away and Utah is 550) the worse the traffic is going through LA. If I've been to Santa Cruz, it takes an extra half hour to get through Gamorra. If I've been to Colorado it will take me an extra hour to get through. If I just go to LA there isn't any traffic at all. James

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2000

i get alot of preverts leering at me and there old to!!!

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2000

Ever been to Acapulco, floosie?

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000

I disappear in restaurants. No matter how polite I am, or how loudly I order I am almost always overlooked. It's an amusing family joke. The waiter/waitress will come back and give everybody what they ordered, look around the damn table and say, "Well everybody seems to have what they want." I'm the ghost at the table, rattling her damn chains and haunting them for a lemonade. God sakes, I get mad just thinking about it. Maybe I'll wear a sheet next time... maybe not. They'd probably just seat someone at me.

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000


I have horrid grocery store line mojo too.... No matter how carefully I decide which of those three long lines to get into, it's guarenteed that the other two will zip on through, while my line will be held up by someone counting pennies, arguing about the dollar overcharge on her beer, and "remembering" coupons after the total's already been processed... all of which happened to me yesterday during my twenty minute wait at the local Ralph's....

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000

If you ever see Gwen and Dwanollah and me on line at the grocery store - run - don't walk - to the nearest exit, cause I have bad bad luck in any lines. My friends know it and will walk away from wherever I go. I also don't have any luck ordering gifts to be shipped - there's always some story - today is my mother's birthday and I sent a gift from amazon, two day air on Tuesday. So it's going to get there tomorrow. THREE DAYS later! With amazon, you have to add the first day in for them to find the books, THEN add two days. So I got my shipping charges refunded, which I don't really care about, I kind of just wanted the gift to get there on her birthday. Waah!

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000

Bad carma (pun intended): my current vehicle attracts vandals (knifing convertible top, breaking inner components, keying the side, etc.) and theiving crackheads. Idiots also like to see how much damage that they can do to it in parking lots. Prior car was totalled in my first accident. This car has been run into at least three times. Twice it was PARKED when it got nailed. Oh, and the door fell off for no reason one day. That was fun. Not. So, well, um, I'm in the market for a new car, damn it. This one is paid off and runs like a top, but it attracts too much bad juju for my tastes. I don't mean to be superstitious, but I also don't want to ignore the obvious! ;)

Good carma: Almost ALWAYS get Hollywood parking. There's only one place I can think of that I go to semi-regularly where I have to walk more than a few feet to the front door. I must have given away a parking space to someone in need one day, that's all I can think of. And a few jobs ago, when everyone had to start paying for parking, I was the only one in my department, and they somehow overlooked me, even after I stupidly made a comment about it...so I continued to have a free parking voucher for three years. And parking was hard to find and expensive at this place. Right before I left, they rectified their error, and I spent two weeks fighting for parking in a scary lot three times the distance from the office and/or paying up to $10 a day. It occurs to me that my two week notice and the last-minute parking trauma may well have been linked somehow. ;) And whereas I've had roommates who perpetually ran out of gasoline (so I'm not sure if this was their stupidity or something that just happens to the best of us), I have never had the same issue. When it nudges the "E", it gets gasoline. I'd like to assume that this is not so much good carma as it is common sense, but I suspect I have poor role models to point to.

Bonus good karma: Finding clothes that fit, even if I don't try them on. I can eyeball them when I'm in a hurry and be happy with how they look on when I get them home.

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2000


If you like this topic, you should check out the "Super Powers" thread here on Gwen's forum. It rocks so much, I printed it out to save...Milla's parking karma reminded me. (poor Red Sonja..)

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2000

Oh, they knifed it again yesterday, Lisa, guess it was on my mind. :) Thanks for the props, tho.

Bad karma: suitcase packing. I always forget something vital. Even making lists fails. And they get lost, they get beat up, things 'disappear' in transit, etc. Sucks.

Good karma: pets. Mine are always incredibly well-behaved and loving and disciplined. I forget how lucky I am until I hear someone complining about their dog eating their house and biting strangers or their cat peeing and puking all over everything BUT the litter box.

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2000



I'm always amazed at the different worlds all of us come from. I'm talking about your remark, Milla, about dogs misbehaving and "biting strangers". I live in the country and have 3 German Shepherds and the day they stop biting or attempting to bite strangers is the day they are finished. Literally. When someone comes to visit us, they don't even THINK about getting out of their vehicle until someone comes outside and gives the dogs the A-OK. After that, they just go lay down somewhere and mind their own business. Way down at the end of the drive there's a sign that says: "dogs at large." If they're on foot and they ignore it...they're dog food.

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2000

I love animals. But the day a dog bites anyone around me is the day that dog becomes plant food. They can bark all they want but they can not bite. Now that we have that out of the way, I am cursed when it comes to beautiful clouds in the sky when I need them. I am a photographer and when I go landscape shooting there need to be clouds in the sky. You know, dramatic John Wayne clouds. Clouds to create gorgeous backdrops for an old barn or Anasazi ruin. But everytime I go somewhere like Utah or the eastern sierra I get skunked. Last summer I went to the Bristle Cone Pines and waited 3 days. Not a wisp of a cloud. The day before I arrived there were thunderstorms galore. As I was leaving and about an hour from the mountains there erupted a fierce storm right over where I had been. Curses he said in so many words. Or when the waves are good I have to work. Right before I get off work the wind comes up and blows out the waves. Or I'm looking for fog in northern Calif in the redwoods and clear blue skies. Curses he says in so many words. James

-- Anonymous, October 07, 2000

But Bubba--your dogs are trained to protect your property and are outdoor dogs doing a job. I should have specified that I was referring more to indoor pampered bratty pets that nip ankles and people who are trying to pat them because they are allowed to do so rather than being trained not to do that.

We're not so much from different worlds as we are familiar with different types of dogs. One next door neighbor has Rotties that do a good job of biting strangers because they are supposed to. Another neighbor has three ill-tempered yappy dachshunds that nip people that their owner has deemed "okay". That's bad training. Once you give the high sign one way or another, then the dog should be trained enough not to, for example, haul off and maul a small child innocently trying to pat them or, conversely, casually let someone step over their prone lazy bodies with a big sack full of your best goodies while they take a nap on the back porch. :)

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000


I should note that the Rotties have lots of strangers to bite because we live in a high-crime area and thus lots of crackheads and thieves are constantly trespassing, burglarizing, vandalizing and ripping off whatever isn't nailed down. If they ignore the BEWARE OF DOG signs and go into a yard that is not their property to wander around in, it's (literally) their ass. :)

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000

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