{"id":1093,"date":"2008-04-01T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T08:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1093"},"modified":"2008-12-28T21:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:20:02","slug":"just-my-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1093","title":{"rendered":"Just my luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a superstitious person, but recently things have been a little crazy around here&#8230;and now I am looking over my shoulder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday my flatmates and I were washing our balcony (spring cleaning!).\u00c2\u00a0 We have a faucet on the balcony that does not have a handle, and so we use a little piece of metal to pry it open.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, this is <strong>so<\/strong> smart.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, my soapy hands slipped and I sliced open my left index finger on the faucet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Great timing, since I was going to the beach later and ended up getting salt water in the wound.\u00c2\u00a0 yeah, ouch.\u00c2\u00a0 It is taking longer to heal since I am left-handed and it keeps getting bumped against things.<\/p>\n<p>Ok,\u00c2\u00a0so it is acknowledged that I can be a little klutzy sometimes, and I have at least a dozen scars to prove this.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a natural part of my life, and I actually carry band-aids in my purse.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But the next part of the story was just too much.\u00c2\u00a0 I was walking down the street with my cousin Monib a few nights ago when I felt something hit my hand.<\/p>\n<p>Something warm.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at my hand in the dim light.\u00c2\u00a0 Covering the top of my left hand was bird poo.<\/p>\n<p>I looked up, and sitting on a telephone wire above was a unconcerned looking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hooded_Crow\">crow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily there was a pizzeria across the street, and so Monib and I walked over to clean up.\u00c2\u00a0 The guy behind the counter pointed out the restroom and I washed off my hand (and jacket).\u00c2\u00a0 By this point I was laughing out loud, because really, how often does this happen?!\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t freak out, although I admit that I was a little disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>Monib said it is supposed to be good luck to get pooped on by a bird, but I&#8217;m of the opinion that someone created that particular saying to console whoever got bird poo on them.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t &#8220;they&#8221; (oh, the ever popular &#8220;they&#8221;!) say that things <strong>happen in threes<\/strong>?\u00c2\u00a0 Well&#8230;now I&#8217;m waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find something to be the third occurence, and then I can go back to breathing easily.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em>(now that I think about it, I don&#8217;t have the greatest luck with <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/900\"><em>birds<\/em><\/a><em>&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a superstitious person, but recently things have been a little crazy around here&#8230;and now I am looking over my shoulder&#8230; On Saturday my flatmates and I were washing our balcony (spring cleaning!).\u00c2\u00a0 We have a faucet on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}