Something In The Air

Bad luck and weird events come in three's; I'm convinced of it. Years ago, when I worked in the life insurance business, I knew that if I got a report of the death of a policyholder, I could count on two more within 30 to 45 days. It never failed. And this week, which has been weird to begin with, gave us three strange events within 24 hours.

It all began last night as I was getting ready to prepare dinner. I reached into the fridge for a cold lemon-lime seltzer water. I drink them all day long and I've come to expect them to taste particularly frosty cold when the first sip passes my lips. So, I was a little disturbed when this one tasted slightly warm. But, because I was so busy preparing dinner I pressed on and forgot about the temperature of my drink. After dinner; however, when I went to retrieve a pint of Baskin Robbins jamoca almond fudge from the freezer and found "soup" instead, I realized that we had a problem. All the lights were on, but the computer panel of our fridge had flat lined. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I'd run into that problem before with a similar refrigerator and I knew to "re-boot" it by unplugging it and then plugging it back in and resetting the thermostat. Crisis averted.

Then, this morning, I received a phone call from the Fraud Investigation Unit from my credit union. They just wanted to ask me to verify a few recent purchases with my debit card and promised it would only take a second. Since I have not used this particular debit card in more than two months, I knew it was going to take more than a second. Sure enough, they reported a fistful of purchases with my card in the past couple of days; most of them originating in California. Needless to say, these are not my purchases. Someone had gotten a hold of my debit card information and was trying to make the most of it. Since there's less than $10 in that particular account, they're not going to get far and I sincerely doubt that that new Apple computer they ordered online will be delivered to them. So that card has been canceled and I've been instructed on how to dispute the charges. Another crisis averted.

So, just to top things off, as my husband was working from home this afternoon his computer crashed. I mean it just stopped in the middle of what he was doing and he lost all his program files. Fortunately, he's in the computer repair business and only had to take his computer across the street to be fixed. As yet, we don't know the extent of the damage, but are hopeful that the files can be restored.

On our way home from dropping off the computer we did a little recap, realized that we had reached 3 events and feel confident that, for now at least, our troubles are over.