an opportunity for me to teach the world

Exhibit A: I got horribly sick from these oysters, on the plane home from Seattle...during landing

In the past month or so I've come to realize that some of the dumbest shit happens to me. Not interesting stuff but mainly really boring and mostly irritating things that is either common knowledge to other people or strange things that no one else seems to understand...until they happen to me.

What the hell am I talking about? Here's an example: one thing I learned after moving to America was that post-dated cheques don't exist in this country. How did I find this out? My landlord deposited my January rent cheque (post-dated January 15th) on December 30th and when it bounced he refused to pay the $30 insufficient funds charge from my bank. Apparently you can date a cheque for February 38th, 2240 and if you sign it, it's legal tender in America.

Exciting, right?

Last night I sent a friend of mine an e-mail about another stupid thing that I am in the process of figuring out and she reiterated my feelings of "why the hell does this shit always happen to me?!" with her line "... your bedding story totally cracked me up. sorry about laughing, but damn that is funny. I feel like that is an only you kinda thing."

So, in the spirit of this kind of junk happening to me repeatedly with no end in sight I have decided to start posting about this kind of crap so perhaps someone can gain from my mistakes/misfortunes.

Sigh.