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Careful What You Wish For
Today, our receptionist at work commented that she’d had quite a dull day, on the whole, as no crazies had shown up to harass her. She then immediately took it back, for fear she had "jinxed" herself, and guaranteed that her day tomorrow would be spent with nothing but crazies.
It reminded me of one of biggest “jinxes” I have ever been witness to:
When I worked in radio in Brisbane, my desk was located in the newsroom. One day, the news director (who also read the afternoon news) put her head in her hands and said “Ugh, I’m SO bored. This is the slowest news week EVER. I just wish something would HAPPEN.”
The date? September 10, 2001.
It reminded me of one of biggest “jinxes” I have ever been witness to:
When I worked in radio in Brisbane, my desk was located in the newsroom. One day, the news director (who also read the afternoon news) put her head in her hands and said “Ugh, I’m SO bored. This is the slowest news week EVER. I just wish something would HAPPEN.”
The date? September 10, 2001.
(Anonymous)
I remember that, because I was doing my internship at the time. I watched the TV coverage on the Tuesday night, and had this feeling that I might get called in.
Sure enough, my Dad answered the phone just before 6am - Robyn asking if I could come in. He just said 'yup' and hung up on her. She had no idea if I was coming or no. Meanwhile my Dad came and yelled at me "Get up! You've gotta go into work!", before shoving some toast down my throat and pushing me out the door.
I got in just before half six to utter madness - and you know, we were just a small newsroom on the other side of the world. Can't imagine what it would have been like in New York and Washington!
The only thing similar that happened to me was when my Mum was in hospital a few years back having surgery for cancer - I was doing a night shift and remember remarking 'I hope it's a quiet one, I'm going to try to keep tabs on Mum's operation'.
Then some dudes blew up the London underground. 7/7/05.