Everything I touch turns to crap.
All since Thursday:
1) Daughter who is suddenly unemployed finds her new "dream job": selling grossly overpriced vacuum cleaners door to door, and of course in all her teenage wisdom, totally brainwashed by the company into thinking she's doing the community a service by aquainting them with this thouroughly super machine that's just going to sell itself.
2) same daughter driving home from training from said job is hit by an uninsured driver who came out of a side street into traffic when he couldn't see after supposedly being waved through by another unidentified driver. Exchanges names and addresses, admits to fault at the scene, but of course recalls things differently when contacted by daughter's insurance company
3) same daughter now without a car borrows one of our remaining two. Phones home to say "car's stopped. Won't go". Couldn't be a simple battery, could it? No, of course not. For some reason the engine has siezed, and the first two quotes to fix it were $5000, then $4000. We have now got that down to "maybe closer to $2000, depending what we find".
4) second daughter's boyfriend turns out to house fire where it turns out a number of lives, including children are lost. Too, too sad. His first fatal firecall. Hard to deal with.
I said before the game that with the luck around me I should stay home today.
So sorry everyone. My fault. If anybody brought the boys bad luck today it was probably me.
I knew I should have stayed at home.
I hope he has someone he can talk to at work if help dealing with it.