[u]NOTE the 2 extra POINTS![/u] This is serious!!
Luck folks, how do we get it , do we make it , does it just happen, how does it come along??
[b]MAKE NO MISTAKE – AND DO NOT BE CONFUSED -[/b] I’m not talking about career advancement, I’m not talking about being ‘Head-Hunted’ ([i]I know how good that feels like![/i]).
NO – I’m talking about sheer luck. You either get it or you don’t. Is that a simple analogy? Can you identify with that? Or perhaps is there more to it than that? Do you perhaps create/generate your own personal modicum of luck?
Personally I’ve never been lucky at ANYTHING.
[b]ANYTHING[/b] in my case includes just about every aspect of life: educational path, career development, choice of spouse, geographic deployment, avoidance of warzones, pay-&-salary structures, [i]up to and finally including after all these years.. [b]the purchase of a Tumble Dryer![/b][/i]
I’ll openly admit to all of you, if there was ever anyone to be hit by lightning on an open street, in a field, doing a hillside walk – stand about 4 feet away from me, ‘coz I’d get the [u]buzz[/u] and you’d be safe. ‘Safe from me’ is a different matter, but you’d be considered saved from the enormous levels of voltage that had just coursed through my body. I DID once lose all the hairs on my right arm and right leg ([b]’the central component remained unaffected[/b] ~ shades of “[i]Allo’ Allo'[/i])but the French doctors in Chamonix thought it was [u]’just me'[/u], until my climbing partner told them that it was ME that the lightning had hit, not him (he was the one on the stretcher!).
Marriage – CR@P. – Don’t bother asking, I assume all the long-term marriages are down to me (or other sad folk like me) – we take all the grief so that you simple luvvy-duvvy folk can enjoy your torment together.
NOW we come to the point of my post. I hunted around and around and around and finally settled on an online purchase of a seemingly good(well-specced and cheap)-priced tumble dryer – [b]it sounds like one of those old F4-Phantoms doing a practice wind-up of the turbine after a cold layoff!![/b]
>> What I included in a peermail to a couple of silly blokes like me (except they’re both married).:
[i]I’ve heard some loud noises in my years not only from F4-Phantoms, F14-Tomcats, F16-Falcons, the F1-Tornado, the C-130 can cause a bit of a racket, but this dryer is unbelievable – it’s totally embarrassing!! Not even the Harrier Jumpjet (with its phenomenal single twin-turbine Pegasus engine) makes this much noise – mind you – I’ve never heard any of those aircraft in the confines of my kitchen !! But if I ever did (they’d have to miniaturise them first) I doubt they’d have the same sound level.[/i]
If you’ve never heard that sound, count yourself lucky. It is a screeeeeeddd sound that could make you ….. 😉
Anyone else within the Peer community as unlucky as me ?
Or are you all just glad that I’m now here to take the heat off ? 😉
