Nice things that have immediately been ruined

[riverpebbles]

I have loads. But two in particular come to mind.

1. Spent ages choosing a long down coat. Extremely indecisive but also v cold with ds playing football, so this was painful. Then within a week caught it on barbed wire and ripped it. Not badly, mended it invisibly, but the RAGE.

2. New kitchen installed (about 15 years ago) - always going to be stressful. Heavily pregnant, plus my DH got proper flu, so it was two weeks of hell. Within two weeks, I found a bag of potatoes that had rotted and the resulting revolting fluid had seeped right into the lowest shelf of the wall cabinet - you know, the bit that forms part of the structure.

21 years ago (!) we bought a brand new car - a new Mini when they first came out. I literally drove it out of show room. Went the scenic way home.... passed a quarry..., got home with a chipped windscreen and a stone dent in the bonnet.😢

New carpet, (two weeks), glass candle holder. Glass exploded, burned right through my carpet

Slide fridge onto wooden board,before sliding back into place. I'm sure YouTube will have a video

My hair, immediately ruined in the mid 80’s by a hairdresser who permed it, took out the curlers and stuck me under one of those dryers, no styling whatsoever, just left to dry by itself, resulting in a hairdo from hell! I walked to the local chemist to buy straightening solution!