Have you ever had a series of bad luck events and wondered...What is happening?

[pookie999]

In the past 6 days I have had a series of bad things happen to me. It started after an early evening meal with friends in a city centre, when I went back to the multi storey carpark to find it had been locked and closed at 8pm and my car was locked inside. A couple of days later I went to a rural festival to register early to avoid queues for when I returned the next day. I had planned to buy petrol at a petrol station en route that had completely shut every petrol pump with covers. Hence, by the time I drove to the festival I was on empty and stuck for hours until someone helped me. When I drove back to the festival the following day, the road I always take was closed and I followed a diversion. I was driving peacefully along the country road when another car came speeding towards me and clipped my car and smashed my wing mirror, leaving me shaking and crying. I arrived at the festival and was getting support from Welfare when I received a phone call from my estate agent to say my buyer had pulled out of the sale. We were at the point of Exchange. I left and came home, where I can only describe myself as a human train wreck. Has anyone got any explanation how so many things could have gone wrong in a short space of time, please 🙏

Two of those things could have been completely avoided and are a planning issue on your part: not checking when the car park shut and not ensuring you had plenty of petrol when you set out.

Sorry about the other things - three fairly crappy things to happen. O hope you get another buyer soon.

Yes, these things happen and sometimes randomly cluster, but nothing is happening except life. As pp said, the first two were totally avoidable - don't go to rural areas without plenty of fuel. Also, selling a house is pretty awful and, while buyers pulling out is unlucky, it's par for the course, especially in the early stages. You have to be prepared and accept that shit will happen when in the process.

Poor planning?

You should have checked when the car park would be locked.

You should have filled up your car before attending a rural festival rather than relying on just one petrol station in case this happened.

People pull out of house sales every day.

Cars get clipped (and far worse) every day. That's why we have insurance.

This sounds like a personal resilience issue as much as anything. I've had my wing mirror clipped and, whilst it pissed me off and these things always leave you a bit shaken because it cpupd have been worse, I wouldn't have cried at a clipped mirror or needed support from welfare at a festival for it.

Like others have said the parking and petrol were within your control, and I'd view them as a lesson learned if it were me, we've all done stuff like that before and been caught out through not thinking or planning ahead properly.

I would be shaken up by being clipped by another car and the buyer pulling out of the house sale is rotten but it happens.

I get it though, it's a lot to have to sort out in a short space of time, not having your car overnight, needing assistance when you ran out of petrol, then having to report, sort insurance and repair after the wing mirror then having the admin to address associated with the house not going through and needing to go back to viewings and things.

One thing at a time, the first two are sorted now, put them out of your mind and concentrate on the wing mirror and the house. After a run of stuff like this I'm often actually grateful it all happened together so that it's out of the way!

I think the first three could have been avoided with more organisation on your part.
You could have checked what time the car park closed, filled up before going to a rural location and you could have (I would have) checked the route before setting off (most would have told you about road closures).

The other two are unfortunate and I can see these affecting your mood.

I hope your house sale goes through soon and you sort your car out 🙏🏻

Oh mate that's a rubbish run of luck!