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AARRGH! FH's bad luck

Original post by DavaDay

I'm sorry girls, I just really needed to vent. Last month, a few weeks before we got engaged, FH was driving my car on the Belt Parkway when he was rear-ended and slammed into another car. Thank God he was okay, just a little bruised, but my car was totaled. I bought a new car a few weeks later and tried to put on a brave face about it - 'I know it wasn't your fault; I wanted a new car anyway, no big deal, blah blah blah.' But, I was still laying out $6000 out-of-pocket for the down payment (plus the amt. the insurance company payed me), plus now I have new car payments for the next 3 years. And I couldn't ask him for financial help because the accident wasn't his fault and he's a student and has no money, while I do.

Fine, I was over that when just last night we were eating dinner, and he reached across the table and knocked into a water glass, sending it flying two feet and spilling all over my laptop computer. Five minutes later, the computer was dead. He felt terrible , and again, it was just an accident and I couldn't be too mad, but... he's now just completely wrecked the two most expensive things I own, in only 7 weeks! I know that money isn't the most important thing in life, but here we are, trying to plan a wedding, and because of his bad luck we're starting with, what, $21,000 less than we would have had?

Thanks for hearing me out, girls, I really needed to vent and I just can't complain to him because he already feels like the biggest loser after all this, and I don't want to make him feel worse.
Soon2BeMrs Posted:

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October Bliss Posted:

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Vent away - we're here to listen!!
DavaDay Posted:

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Okay, so I have an update with good-ish news:

FH just called me from the Apple Store, and my hard drive is still intact! Whatever it is that controls the power supply had shorted out and needs to be replaced, and the CD/DVD drive is ruined, but that can be fixed. So instead of buying a whole new computer, we can fix this one for $500. And I haven't lost all my files and photos!!

Thanks so much for all the sympathy and support you guys, you really helped brighten my afternoon while I was sitting here worrying about everything.
Longmarriage Posted:

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Dava! I'm sorry for all the bad luck lately! At least you got your files and pictures back, but that ***** you had to deal with that. Hey, at least it wasn't carrot and corriander soup, I hear that destroys keyboards...

DavaDay Posted:

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Hee! I forgot I did that! I overturned an entire bowl of soup upside-down on top of my keyboard at work. But it was my last day there, and I wanted to see if I could get to 5 PM with no one noticing and then run out the door, never looking back!

I'll tell him that story when he gets home, I bet it will cheer him up.

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