Curses.

[The Funslinger]

No, I don't believe in magic, or being cursed, but sometimes there is something that just keeps happening, defying all logic, and it's kind of hilarious. What 'curses' seem to occupy your lives?

The memory stick I am currently using is one I've had for years. Every so often, it's gone missing and I've acquired a new one. Then, a couple of months later, I've found this old memory stick and thought 'nah, I've got everything on this new one. I'll just leave it.'

Then, within a week, something happens to destroy the new memory stick. For instance, a school laptop slipped off of the swing around desk attached to my chair because those desks are shit. Laptop? Fine. Memory stick? Crushed. Or the time I was pulling a memory stick out of a USB drive. It stays firmly lodged in, but the casing disintegrates in my hands. My memory stick is cursed to destroy my other memory sticks with dark magic!

Or an ex girlfriend of mine who remarked to me that she seems to have a curse that means any time she comes into contact with cherry flavoured drinks, she knocks them over. This brought up because she comes to sit on the floor next to me as I'm talking to some friends and sipping on a cherry coke. Ten or so minutes later, we get up to go somewhere. Her handbag knocks over the half full can.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I would answer, but you've stolen mine. Memory sticks were the bane of my life from ages 11 to 18.

Oh, I'm also halfway convinced that my dreams can predict the future, but that's not really a 'curse', just a weird element of my life.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I am cursed with forever missing whenever I throw something into the garbage bin without getting up from my chair.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I have the curse of whenever I have some free time to myself I always get a call from a family member saying they need their laptop fixing urgently.

 

[Aetera]

I'm cursed with only receiving cell phone calls when I think I have it silenced when I'm in a movie theater or a meeting or something.

 

[lRookiel]

I'm cursed by two things, both of them do the same thing.

Number one: RANDOMERS!

Number two: LAG

Randomers and lag in video games fuck up my multiplayer gaming experiences to no end. Last game on League of Legends I decide to support for once, my carry is the most retarded and arrogant twat EVER (I was already pissed off so it didn't help that I had some mouthy **** to lane with). That game I disconnected 3 times and had extreme lag spikes which disabled control of my character about 4 times.

FUCK OFF BT AND RANDOMERS!

 

[shrekfan246]

Spoiler: Shit piss **** fuck cocksucker ************ and tits.

Oh, not that kind of curse?

I seem to short out relatively "cheap" electronic accessories. I go through headphones and headsets like nobody's business, and goddamn if I can't find a mouse that's Button 1 doesn't start freaking out after three-six months.

Also, if a bottle or cup falls, it's basically guaranteed that I'll only be able to miraculously ninja my way to catching it if it's already empty, or if it's not opened yet at which point I'll catch it with such force that the top, cap, etc. explodes off and it sprays everywhere anyway.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm not cursed but every pair of headphones/ ear-plugs I buy have a relative life expectancy of 1 to 3 months. I think my last pair has broken this curse since I've been using them for roughly a year and only now has the left side died but then, I only use one side as per my job's music policy...or allowance or whatever.

 

[deviltry]

Headphone cable near connector always breaks. For every headphones I owned. >.>

 

[Doclector]

I'm cursed to add people on facebook that I later find are complete arseholes, but it's too late because now they work with me and deleting them will cause an unholy shitstorm.

 

[Jarlaxl]

If I don't run in the morning, I always *just* miss the train by seconds, and inevitably have to wait around 5-10 minutes for one when the trains are normally way faster than that in rush hour. If I do run, I basically walk onto the platform and step on a train. I'm convinced that the fates are trying to get me to not be fat.

 

[Euryalus]

...Foiled Again!

<..>

...sorry XD

OT: Me personally? Nothing that I can think of at the moment... At least not what you're talking about.

[sub][sub][sub] I consider my on and off insomnia a curse [/sub][/sub][/sub]

Most of what you're talking about has to do with confirmation bias and other fancy psychological stuff honestly. Try paying closer attention to all the times it doesn't happen.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I'm cursed to have broken computers even if they're new.
Any computer I own breaks within a week of getting it by no fault of my own.
It makes me sad.

 

[thesilentman]

I'm cursed to break headphones, accident or not. Also (inversely), computers seem to work well around me and not for anyone else. Quite odd to see my girlfriend cursing at machinery when that's my job...

 

[Something Amyss]

I've noticed this thing that people only seem to call/text/message me in clusters.

It's like everyone I know is on the exact same schedule.

Like, yesterday I just started skyping my gf when I got three calls, a half dozen texts, and an Xbox Live party/game request.

This repeats about 3 hours later.

 

[NightmareExpress]

You think that you're going to do something you like and be comfortable while doing it?
Nope. Somebody needs you to do something. Now, out of the blue you have to go to the loo urgently.
Or...why not both?

Bah, I swear the universe just enjoys making itself inconvenient for me.
Oh yeah, and if I even "think" (for one split second) of not being able to go to sleep while in bed I magically won't be able to go to sleep for an hour or more. Bloody placebo effect induced insomnia.

 

[gritch]

I tend to get hit in the head whenever I play sports. I lost my first tooth because I got hit in the face with a basketball. When I played soccer (or football if you will) as a kid I would often make unplanned head-ball contact - hell in my first game even the ref kicked the ball into my face. It became so frequent at some of the others jokingly started calling it our good luck charm... I know why I stopped playing sports.

 

[prophecy2514]

I am somewhat cursed, whenever I open my phone to check the time in the afternoon, for some reason, it is almost always 1:37PM, (or 13:37) I think my phone is trying to tell me how 1337 I am!

EDIT: I also ALWAYS hit my head on a shelf whenever I sit on the armchair in the living room, I usually fall back into the chair but hit my head every damn time...

wow, this is what I came in to post, but for me I always seem to check the time right on 10:19 in the morning

...these numbers could mean something...

 

[Yojimzo]

I would answer, but you've stolen mine. Memory sticks were the bane of my life from ages 11 to 18.

Oh, I'm also halfway convinced that my dreams can predict the future, but that's not really a 'curse', just a weird element of my life.

Those are prophetic dream's, i could get into the psychological meaning, but i wont unless asked.

Anyways, OT: Luck of the Irish is all i have to say, also my cards, be it driver's, debit, what have you always disappear on me.

 

[Keoul]

My curse is constantly purchasing things that don't actually suite my needs.
Buy a new mouse for gaming and low and behold, the thing is laser and so sensitive that it'll be useless for gaming.
Buy a new monitor and I get these fuzzy lines going all over the place like a tv with it's antennae in the wrong place.

Just a lot of bad luck I suppose.