shadowsystems on March 13th, 2009 08:22 am (UTC) I try not to ask questions like that...
One night last year (I think it was a Wednesday) my mom, son, & I had gone out to dinner because it had already been a stressfull week. The food was terrible, the service sucked, and they tried to bill us for our own meals AND someone else's. After we got that straightened out, we came home.
To find someone had killed my black cat & nailed him to our door with the word "Satanists!" written in his blood with a stick. (The stick was in the bushes.) After cleaning that mess up & burying the cat, we went inside.
Where we found a message on the answering machine that mom's dad had passed away that night from heart failure. He went in his sleep, so that was good, but it was still a kick in the crotch. The next morning I called in to work to ask for a few days off to help make arrangements & stuff. They said I could take all the time I wanted, because they had planned on firing me anyway & I need not bother to come in - they'd mail me my final cheque.
My Ex decided that was a good day to have me Served because she was taking me to Court to try and get child support out of me. Funny enough, the Judge told her to get bent since my son spent over 50% of his time under *MY* care. But getting a Summons on the day I'm trying to make funeral arrangements for Grandpa only added to my stress.
Somebody took a rock to my car that night & smashed in all the windows. Didn't do anything else, just broke out all the glass from *everywhere*. It only cost me $2K (after my deductible) to get it all replaced.
That was Friday, and my (bio) Dad ended up getting laid off from where he worked. They decided to close the Base where he worked, and any non-Military personnel were immediately relieved of duty with full pensions. Ok, that was nice, but it was still one HELL of a kick in the nuts.
By the time the weekend got there, my entire family was ready to start stocking up on guns, ammo, & nuclear weaponry to start the Armaggeddon. That's just ONE example of how Life can go from "Not so bad" to "Oh Holy Fucking SHIT!" in a blink of an eye. Which is why I try NEVER to ask "Why Me?". God tends to answer "Why Not?" *eeep* =(