The unluckiest story I’ve ever heard is this.
Yes Man hd My friend lets call her Jess, because that’s her name, is a classic american beauty, but intelligent,kind and quite cool, ALRIGHT, so not classic… but what I’m trying to emphasise is that she is purer than pure. So it was christmas in Minneapolis, Jess needed to run some errands (errands!) it had snowed heavily the night and her car was stuck in the snow, so she revvved it (please get someone else in the office to act out car revving noises for atmosphere)
mrrrrrggghhhhh brrrrrrrmmmmmhhhhh mrrrrghhhhhh clunkc clunkkkk bmmmffffff, thump thump, bmmmfff revvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv, whrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The car was stuck fast, but suddenly became free.
And so she went about town in car, went to the mall, the superstore, was gone for about two hours. When she came home, she was pleased to get inside huddle up by the fire, when her mum came in and said
Jess, have you seen the dog….
no it wasn’t just snow that impeded Jess’s car; it was a dogtastrophy.
Not only had Jess run over her pet dog, but the poor fella had been dragged about town stuck in the wheel cavity for two hours. Jess couldn’t sleep for years
I said to her oh my god that’s so unlucky
She said
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The dogs name was Lucky
Now I don’t know if you have heard the one about the small dog someone brought home from spain that savaged their poodle and actually turned out to be a giant rat?? – but this one is actually true, I know Jess, she wouldn’t lie and actually she didn’t really find it that funny, not that I do, cough.
(must point out that this is not Laundry Jess, who is not unlucky or lucky
just…Laundry)
What’s to be done about bad luck, touch wood?
Dr Richard Wiseman has done a phD on the subject (not that we should trust a man who puts subliminal messages in his surname)
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He thinks that far from a mysterious phenomenon it is a controllabe set of behaviours – that’s what we like back to the science. People are born lucky they make their luck
Principle One: Maximise Chance Opportunities Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, including networking, adopting a relaxed attitude to life and by being open to new experiences. (well Lucky was relaxing under the car; he did open himself to new experiences)
Principle Two: Listening to Lucky Hunches Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. In addition, they take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities by, for example, meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts. (Jess should have been thinking less about Christmas and more about the yelping sounds)
Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune
Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of good fortune. These expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies by helping lucky people persist in the face of failure, and shape their interactions with others in a positive way.
Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck to Good
Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, do not dwell on the ill fortune, and take control of the situation. (Jess could have had a further Catastrophe)
I know that I’m going to be thinking lucky thoughts all day, both fingers crossed, wood knocked and four leaf clover doodled, lets all hope for a smooth running, no server crashing, no trafffic jams Laundry day.
**no animals were intentionally harmed during the writing of this post.
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One Response to “When Lucky got Unlucky”
Posted: Jan 30th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Arrrgh that nearly made me cry, poor poor Lucky. Maybe if he’d been called Unlucky from the start he wouldn’t have felt the pressure and would have survived.
My parents have had a series of Jack Russell terriers who have cheated death on many an occassion – for example Mogs, who finally went to the big kennel in the sky at the ripe old age of 17 due to old age – she’d already survived being hit by a car and falling off a very tall cliff (she was chasing sea gulls and forgot that they could fly over the edge and she couldn’t), and Dora who survived eating rat poison and getting an abcess on her eye after a fight with a cat. Fran was more reserved and ladylike and didn’t do such silly things, but she did once break her little toe (on a jack russell, can you imagine? The smallest bone ever!) and had to have her whole leg in plaster for ages.