Awesome and awful LUCK you've had

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Here in Australia we're lucky to have such a low covid infection and fatality rate but have been unlucky in the slow vaccine rollout with the major cities locked down for weeks to come. I'm lucky I live near the beach and that I found a 2 dollar coin in that area the other day so I guess things aren't too bad.

Other cases I can think of :

The time I found Batman adventures 12 (first Harley) for a buck at a thrift store one Thursday. I'm usually there on Friday so I was very lucky .

The time I changed my travel plans in Japan 2016 and caught the first bullet train to Osaka so I could do this Universal studios ride that was closing the next day. While in line I got talking to a Japanese guy in biohazard cosplay, we did the ride together, exchanged emails and have been friends ever since!
Especially lucky for a quiet guy like me who has trouble making friends.

Not so lucky. The time I tried to use a fifty fresh from an ATM at a charity store that turned out to be counterfeit and was treated like a scammer.

And your stories?

[green_garnish]

I was driving home 30 miles at night in a blizzard, because my employer didn't see fit to inform employees that a blizzard was happening. I was dressed in a suit and tie and dress shoes. I was driving a Ford Escort hatchback that had been having issues with the starter.

I was the last car in a caravan of sorts, but 15 miles from home I got to the bottom of a hill and the car stalled. Now, the weather was so bad that there were 6-8 drifts on each side of the road, and I couldn't see them because the snow was falling and blowing so hard. I got as far as I did creepng along at 5 miles an hour, and when I heard a soft crunch I knew I'd run into a drift and would shift to reverse to back out of it, correct my direction, and go forward again. But one time when I did this the car stalled and wouldn't start again.

I tried the ignition until I could hear the battery dying. I sat there in the car knowing I couldn't stay in it, because a plow would come barrelling down the road, not be able to see me, and crush me. I couldn't leave the car because I was in a rural area. It was probably 3 miles to the nearest house, and dressed like that I would probably die of exposure, even assuming I could actually find a house in that weather.

Without my caravan, alone in the worst conditions I ever experienced, I tried the ignition again after about 5 minutes, and amazingly it started. I was able to drive it all the way to town, and was able to stay with some friends (my real home was still another 7 miles and on a badly maintained county road).

Next day I found the carburator and fuel injector was almost solid ice. In those days I believed in God and was convinced I'd experienced a miracle. Today I know better and realize I just got lucky. But if I was ever to doubt the non-existence of God, that would be what I would point to.

[babyblob]

The only really amazing luck I have had was sadly bad luck for someone else but it was a life saving bit of luck for me.. This was 14 years ago I was waiting for a bus. I saw something shiny on the ground and went to pick it up. it was a pretty cool Silver Dollar coin. That was a cool bit of luck in itself but right after I picked it up I heard a loud crash and jumped out of my skin. When I turned to see what it was there was a car crash and one of the cars spun out and crashed into the bus stop I was standing at. The only other person standing there with me was an old man. He was hit by the car and sadly he did not make it. His name was Randy and he rode the bus 3 times a week. I talked to him some days. Not all the time so it was not a great Bus Stop friendship or anything. He was just a guy I knew but it was very sad. It messed with my head bad and caused one of my many visits to the nut house. I still have that silver dollar.

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Lost a few coins behind the refrigerator grill at Ben and Jerry's. Was there again tonight five cents short of exact change. Found ten cents on the floor for a five cents profit!☺️

[Chubistian]

Chile has had a great vaccination speed, I'm 25, no health problems, and I'm already vaccinated, both dosis. Same my 18 years old brother. My 83 years old grandmother already received her third dosis. My country has been through some hard times with a horrible government, but at least we have been doing great in vaccination.

I spent years trying to find Wolverine #90, it was impossible in Chile. The only option was to buy it outside and spend like 20 dollars or more. My brother went to the US in 2015-2016, I don't remember for sure, and he found it in the last days of his travel, in a shop that wasn't even a comicbook store, for less than a dollar.

Bad luck: I was like 8 or 9 and spent all my money, that wasn't a lot of course, in Wolverine's Revenge videogame, and it didn't run in my computer. I have a long history of things don't running in my computer when I was young. It took me a lot of time to make it run in my current computer because it was way too new for that game. I managed to do it, had a hard time completing it and went berserk in a few levels because it's a shitty hard game. Worst of all? I had already completed this game in my PS2 years ago, thank to a friend that lent it to me, but I felt like I owed it to my younger self to complete it in pc.

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Won some classic Shaw Bros Kung Fu DVDs at a video arcade I rarely even visited.

Won some star wars solo Funko pops at the movie 5heatre. Didn't even know they had a contest going on.
Bad luck. Local beach was swarming with cops last night. Was caught taking my mask off for a few seconds and scolded like a naughty child by a cop young enough to be my son.

[Starter Set]

Once i found a 10 euros bill while swimming, something like 25 meters from the beach. It was just there on the floor, 3 meters deep maybe, waiting for me.

And concerning rotten luck, well, i have played Blood Bowl for the last 20 years so i have like a thousand stories of truly amazing bad luck i could tell lol.

But overall i'm not complaining. I'm not lady luck's favorite little plaything, but she doesn't hate me neither.

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Found ten bucks sticking out of a garbage can, a twenty picking up trash and a fifty on new year's eve 1999. Found lots of cool valuable stuff at thrift stores such as eighties transformers books for fifty cents. Found TMNT 72 (Archie) for a buck at a flea market. Worth 200!

[Tami]

The best luck I ever had was when I first met my husband and began a 30 year relationship that is still going strong.

I won't talk about bad luck.

[AnthonyO'Brien]

Moved to city. No job, no money no references. Got talking to a guy at one place, turned out he was a regular at my brother's cafe in Wagga Wagga. I moved in, he eventually moved out and I lived in a cool place for 25 years!

[Riv86672]

Almost 30 years ago, I was a young Specialist in the Army (which means I’d been in long enough to think I knew everything) and was on a training exercise w. a Tank Battalion. Me and my peers were basically doing grunt work/clean up.

We loaded, transported, and then were downloading, a truck full of aftcaps, which is what’s left over when a tank fires a round…:


They weigh several pounds (and make great ashtrays) and we’d grab them by the primer tubes, swing back then toss them forward onto a huge pile.

Well this was during summer so we all stripped our gear and went down to t-shirts. One of our NCOs walked by and said “hey I know it’s hot but we have to be at least a little tactical. Put your brain buckets on”.
And so we did, while complaining of course.

The very next thing I did was bend over to grab an aftcap as another guy swung his back and hit me square on top of my head. Without my helmet on he would have easily split my scalp down the middle.

As it happened everyone just…stopped. It was one of those oh **** moments.

I straightened up, looked around at my peers and the NCO who’d just kept me from a pretty horrible injury and smiled.

“And THATS why we put on our brain buckets, ppl”! I said w. a straight face.

[Totoro Man]

I guess the luckiest thing that happened to me is living past my first year. I was extremely premature and the doctors told my parents that I would probably die while on life support. they also apparently told my parents that if I DID survive that I would be severely mentally impaired.

so, simply being here is probably lucky enough.

beyond that, I don't feel like a very lucky person.

[Mace Dolex]

Bad Luck: twice in fact with owning a car, the first time was when I was out of transmission fluid as I didn't keep good track of maintaining it, and with my third car I mistakenly let the engine die on me for lack of motor oil, both instances my father bailed me out with the expenses but ever since then I always take my car to service for anything with my car.

Good Luck: that I have the last Marvel issues of both Transformers #80 and G.I.Joe #155, the former back when I had a subscription with Marvel and the latter I found cheap at a comiccon in the 90's

[babyblob]

And concerning rotten luck, well, i have played Blood Bowl for the last 20 years so i have like a thousand stories of truly amazing bad luck i could tell lol. .

Blood Bowl was amazing. One of my Favorite Games Workshop games with Mordhiem being the second. Do you still play? What team do you rock?

[Starter Set]

What team do you rock?

Ork mostly, my good ol' "Fried Green Potatoes".

Always been kinda fond of the goblins too. (gotta love them weapons)