Fortunate Unluckiness

[Lexingtongue]

Yesterday my car broke down about 50 yards away from a garage which was both unlucky and fortunate at the same time. Anyone else experienced anything similar? Like having a heart attack in a restaurant you were sharing with a cardiac expert or whatever?

 

[Jimmer13]

Yesterday my car broke down about 50 yards away from a garage which was both unlucky and fortunate at the same time. Anyone else experienced anything similar? Like having a heart attack in a restaurant you were sharing with a cardiac expert or whatever?

Only unfortunate and lucky for you if it was an easy and cheap fix?

 

[Lexingtongue]

Only unfortunate and lucky for you if it was an easy and cheap fix?

Yeah, easy and cheap enough, I suppose. Still, it wasn't going anywhere so it was fortunate it went there and not on the bridge five minutes earlier.

 

[EchoMan]

Few years ago I was running low on petrol but chanced my luck a bit to get home. The needle was resting on the bottom of the fuel gauge.

Next morning instead of going to the nearest filling station I decided to call at the one on the way into work.

The car ran out of fuel 100 yards before the garage and I coasted in and up to the pump.

 

[Lexingtongue]

Few years ago I was running low on petrol but chanced my luck a bit to get home. The needle was resting on the bottom of the fuel gauge.

Next morning instead of going to the nearest filling station I decided to call at the one on the way into work.

The car ran out of fuel 100 yards before the garage and I coasted in and up to the pump.

 

[Boinger]

Ran out of petrol about 200yds from the petrol station, which was at the bottom of a fairly steep hill so was able to roll all the way to the pump.

edit - SEB.

 

[Son of Stan]

Yeah I once got home to discover that my house was being burgled and they were still inside. Luckily for me (or them?) they'd put the chain on the front door - so I couldn't get in.

 

[Gala]

Few years ago I was running low on petrol but chanced my luck a bit to get home. The needle was resting on the bottom of the fuel gauge.

Next morning instead of going to the nearest filling station I decided to call at the one on the way into work.

The car ran out of fuel 100 yards before the garage and I coasted in and up to the pump.

I did similar when trading a car in at Evans Halshaw except it was the clutch or gearbox. White smoke pissing out so I went for a walk before picking the new car up.

 

[Kevj]

I was at an industry do last week and non other than @Forrest Gump was there.

Luckily he fucked off early.

 

[Occam's Razor]

I was nearly out of petrol once, but decided to chance it. Ran out unluckily, but then fortunately it was at the top of a big hill. At the bottom of which was a petrol station, and I just coasted up to the pump. And it was "free petrol day".

 

[becs]

Supposed to be at a show this evening but the bairn was sent home from school sick, so we couldn't go. Watching Arsenal v Liverpool now which is a cracking match and I'm enjoying it.

 

[Beaverbrooke]

Van stuck in 5th as pulled off a19 onto a1231, stopped and stalled. Behind me was bloke who worked in same yard as me. Towed me in.
Downside was tow rope was the shortest in the world and he drove like a loon. Think that was the day my hair turned grey.

 

[Skandhaless]

Clutch went on my fiat 132 just as I backed it onto the drive.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

I once was showing a group of lasses on the riviera my Martial arts moves, when all of a sudden I turned swiftly to my left and during my power down, karate chopped a seagull in half. Unlucky for the pigeon, fortunate for me, I was knees deep in fanny because the lasses were so impressed. True story.

 

[RestlessNatives]

I once was showing a group of lasses on the riviera my Martial arts moves, when all of a sudden I turned swiftly to my left and during my power down, karate chopped a seagull in half. Unlucky for the pigeon, fortunate for me, I was knees deep in fanny because the lasses were so impressed. True story.

Mate of the seagull?

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

Mate of the seagull?

They were lovers

 

[CatOnKeyboard]

My Dad wanted to be an RAF pilot during the war, but at the medical it was discovered that he had a heart murmur, he died in August aged 97, I believe that the average life expectancy of a pilot from first getting into a plane to death during the war was a few months. Without the heart murmur, I probably wouldn't have been born.

 

[Kevj]

I once was showing a group of lasses on the riviera my Martial arts moves, when all of a sudden I turned swiftly to my left and during my power down, karate chopped a seagull in half. Unlucky for the pigeon, fortunate for me, I was knees deep in fanny because the lasses were so impressed. True story.

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Knar your birds.

 

[mickb2112]

Yesterday my car broke down about 50 yards away from a garage which was both unlucky and fortunate at the same time. Anyone else experienced anything similar? Like having a heart attack in a restaurant you were sharing with a cardiac expert or whatever?

Years ago breaking down 50 yards from a petrol station on the way to the match with my Sunderland top on. A minibus pulls up and a bunch of lads in Newcastle shirts jump out and push me to the garage to get petrol.

 

[Billy Fish]

I once was showing a group of lasses on the riviera my Martial arts moves, when all of a sudden I turned swiftly to my left and during my power down, karate chopped a seagull in half. Unlucky for the pigeon, fortunate for me, I was knees deep in fanny because the lasses were so impressed. True story.

Why was it unlucky for the pigeon that the seagull was chopped in two?