Evidence of bad karma bringage-upon

[prog]

Sequence of events on Friday:

• Helped take care of some paperworky PITA at the bank, feeling good about myself.
• Succeeded in swapping stinky new headphones for better ones at the Apple Store.

• While crossing the street, gave an exaggerated, sneering "I'm walking here!" shrug to cars blowing through a red light at Porter Square. I did not see until after they passed that they were part of a funeral procession.

• Missed, by minutes, a UPS delivery I'd been waiting weeks for.
• Made things worse by calling and asking for a redelivery; with silent tittering they invited me to come pick it up at the depot under the bridge, not mentioning that the Friday-night line would be hours long.
• Burned up several minutes of one-hour Zipcar reservation trying to figure out how to make the car start via random button-mashing, because it's some newfangled keyless thingo. Had to give up and call Zipcar and ask them how to do it.
• Arrived, saw line, returned empty-handed.
• Was told by UPS that now that I'd exercised my pick-up option, they didn't wanna deliver it after all, so I'll have to rent another Zipcar for gord knows how long on Monday.

Moral: do not shake your fist in the wake of the dead, or they will inconvenience your consumerist lifestyle for days. Clearly.

Comments

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the whole funeral procession thingy where they're allowed to break traffic laws. It's like they want to mourn their dead by potentially creating *more* dead. And I too usually don't recognize a funeral procession until I've already broken it.

[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you are being scientific about it.

[jazzfish]

If he were really being scientific he'd go out and disrupt another funeral procession to see if he gets smacked with another round of bad luck. (Viz.)

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

I've accidentally interrupted a funeral procession a couple of times. Once I even honked. Oops.

[theeidolon.livejournal.com]

Many of the guests are from out of town, and the way from the funeral home to the cemetery can be a bit nerve-wracking in the days before iPhones/Google maps. So I would guess part of the purpose in keeping everyone in a single line and not stopping for red lignts is to keep everyone together so no one gets lost and misses the burial.