Bad things have been happening to those around me. One of my roommates got the stomach flu. Another of my roommate's car got hit by a student in the parking lot where she is student teaching. This same roommate's car started smoking the next day while she was driving on her way to school. She had to take it in and now has to pay hundreds of dollars to get it fixed. The third roommate got a cold and developed pink eye, opps, I mean conjunctivitis. Because, you know there is a difference and it must be known that this was NOT "pink eye". This was not the end of my pink-eyed roommate's problems. She also found out this week that her debit card number had been compromised. This caused her to have to run around crazily figuring out her banking situation. Another one of my close friends was at her house, bending over, when she ripped the crotch in her jeans. I did not see this personally, but I have been told it was an interesting sight!
Nothing has happened to me. My split-jeans friend said I should be careful. My pink-eyed roommate's boyfriend said I was next. Usually I am not a very superstitious person, but I'll tell you after he cautioned me, I double checked each direction before pulling out onto the street! I also made sure not to drive over the speed limit.
I have learned to remove myself from situations and find the humor. I have found this to help in stressful times. I ask myself, "What's funny about this?" or I think about how in 10 years I am going to laugh about the things that are giving me stress in my life because in 10 years it won't matter. I try to tell those inflicted by this string of bad events to just laugh about it, but they just give me looks, looks of disgust and annoyance. I think I need to learn to keep the humor to myself.
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