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Luck is one hell of a tough nut to crack. You never have enough of it, and when you do, it always betrays you at the most crucial point. So when Jimmy Fallon announced his hashtag challenge, everyone felt it hitting a teeny tiny bit too close to the bone.
“It’s Hashtags time! Share a funny or weird story about a time you had bad luck and tag it with #MyBadLuck,” Fallon tweeted, stirring an avalanche of painfully funny and all too real responses. Scroll down below for some very relatable moments of luck turning its back on people that show how we are all no strangers to it.
After you’re done reading this post, be sure to check out some more funny responses to Fallon’s challenges #MyWeirdRoommate, #WeddingFail and #WhyImSingle.
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“We’ve all been in those situations where we have a run of seemingly bad luck,” Lynn How, the author of “Positive Young Minds” who specializes in supporting parents, teachers, and children navigating through mental health issues, told Bored Panda. “We question what on earth we have done to deserve this?”
Lynn said that when you are in the middle of this misery, it is a challenge to see your way out. “With situations like these, the phrase, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’, does hold some weight, there are lessons to be learnt about yourself from a bad situation and you need the shadow to appreciate the light.”
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Moreover, “often you don’t appreciate these lessons when you are in the thick of it and it is only in hindsight that you can spot them. You may notice yourself emerge as a stronger person. It is useful to remember this to help get you through and also that any situation is temporary.”
However, Lynn reminds that if your situation is particularly difficult, reaching out for support will help you through. “Don’t suffer on your own,” she said.
When asked whether things we see and read online can have a negative effect on our mental wellbeing, Lynn confirmed that “the media is designed to be full of negativity and scaremongering as this is what people are drawn to and it sells.”
“If you are particularly sensitive to these stories, I would suggest that you limit your exposure to negativity or at least balance it up by seeking out some good news stories,” she said and added: “Also combat the issue by putting the likelihood of a similar situation happening to you into context for example, considering that the probability of you or someone you know being kidnapped in your lifetime is so tiny, it is not worth worrying about.”
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago (edited)
So both of them were doing the same stupid thing at the same time. The story would have been funnier if both of them were pulled over by the police.
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Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
Ah, the Arab spring. We joke about my parents causing this. They did a mediterranean cruise along the North African coast and shortly afterwards most of those countries had some form of revolution. No idea what sort of propoganda a cruiseship full of grannies (and granddads) were spreading!
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago (edited)
And then she gave you a lecture for being drunk, I'll bet.
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lazy panda 3 years ago
Is it really bad luck if you escaped getting hit in the temple by a puck unscathed?
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
What kind of condition were the femurs in, and why?! Stress fractures like that I'd expect from overdoing weight training... or malnutrition.... Yikes....
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
He had no chance of actually winning the solo recording contract from the show against the most successful contestant ever. I'm all for a person chasing their dreams but no amount of practice was going to beat her pure talent and charisma. There's no shame or bad luck in losing or realizing your limitations. He can continue a life of enjoying singing and it didn't take 13 weeks of travel expenses and no income to discover he had reached his potential. The woman finishing 200th in a marathon should not consider it bad luck to lose to someone who set a new world record. They should be proud of what they did instead.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Dutch people: " Excuse me, could you go sit in the cargo space with the other bagage filled with dirty underwear? "
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Much better than winning a lottery. There are calculations that show that the chance of being killed in a car accident on the way to collect your $15 million prize exceeds the chance of winning $15 million.
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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
When I was 17 my BF broke up with me so he didn't have to buy me a present. ON MY BIRTHDAY. Jokes on him though he ended up a drug addicted loser and I am almost retired from my first career with three beautiful children and about to be married to the love of my life..... so yup. #Win.
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Michelle Thiel 3 years ago
A lot of these are not bad luck, they are just someone being stupid / careless / drunk. We've all done it, just admit it's your fault and move on.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Talking about bad luck. Back in the 90s, in a football game, (soccer in US), my teammate got a chance to score and took a shot with everything he got. The ball cannoned off the post onto the keeper's face. He fell clutching his nose. The game is still on and the ball rebounded to another teammate and he too took a whack. The ball came off the crossbar onto the keeper, half kneeling half getting up. Hitting him between his legs, and bobbled into the goal. I have to admit I cannot stop myself from laughing.
ToGo 3 years ago (edited)
"sOuNdS mOrE liKe GoOd LuCk" - yeah every cloud and all that but they're still pretty unfortunate things to have happened in the first place. Also, it's meant to be a funny hashtag, no one is pitying themselves or saying they had the worst luck in the world. Jeez, some people on here are ridiculous!
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
What Michelle said: a lot of these people do not understand what "bad luck" means
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The soundtrack for most of these stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgm-utGMpsA (Hand on heart, this is not a rickroll).
Katie Garr 3 years ago
my bad luck incident was getting thrown off my horse three times in one week. apparently I land on my hips when i fall sideways. I fell on my right hip and dislocated it, put it back in myself. two days later i fell again, this time on my left hip. the third fall was three days after that, and I fell on my right again! I was so bruised I could barely walk... my horse and I were not jibing with one another that week.
Kaseylulu 3 years ago
I was on my lunch break from jury duty and as I was getting out of my truck I manually locked the door and as I held my keys in my hand (this was before key fabs). I somehow dropped the keys right when I closed the door and the keys got wedged in the door. My door was locked so I couldn't get them out so I had to call roadside assistance. Made it back to jury duty right in the nick of time though!
L Johnson 1 year ago
This is for old people, if you remember wearing these...had pettipants on...okay...they are like a slip only look like giant underwear. Walking thru a large department store and I started feeling something crawling down my backside. All of a sudden, as I took another step, the pettipants fell to the floor. Trying to act nonchalant, I used my shoe, hooked them on my toe and flipped them up in the air into my hand. Hardly missing a step, I threw them in my purse. When I got home, found out the waist elastic had let go, along with whole back seam. No way to save them!! Complete disintegration! Hope I didn't traumatize too many people. No store cameras back then, thank gawd!!!!
Michelle Thiel 3 years ago
A lot of these are not bad luck, they are just someone being stupid / careless / drunk. We've all done it, just admit it's your fault and move on.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Talking about bad luck. Back in the 90s, in a football game, (soccer in US), my teammate got a chance to score and took a shot with everything he got. The ball cannoned off the post onto the keeper's face. He fell clutching his nose. The game is still on and the ball rebounded to another teammate and he too took a whack. The ball came off the crossbar onto the keeper, half kneeling half getting up. Hitting him between his legs, and bobbled into the goal. I have to admit I cannot stop myself from laughing.
ToGo 3 years ago (edited)
"sOuNdS mOrE liKe GoOd LuCk" - yeah every cloud and all that but they're still pretty unfortunate things to have happened in the first place. Also, it's meant to be a funny hashtag, no one is pitying themselves or saying they had the worst luck in the world. Jeez, some people on here are ridiculous!
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
What Michelle said: a lot of these people do not understand what "bad luck" means
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The soundtrack for most of these stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgm-utGMpsA (Hand on heart, this is not a rickroll).
Katie Garr 3 years ago
my bad luck incident was getting thrown off my horse three times in one week. apparently I land on my hips when i fall sideways. I fell on my right hip and dislocated it, put it back in myself. two days later i fell again, this time on my left hip. the third fall was three days after that, and I fell on my right again! I was so bruised I could barely walk... my horse and I were not jibing with one another that week.
Kaseylulu 3 years ago
I was on my lunch break from jury duty and as I was getting out of my truck I manually locked the door and as I held my keys in my hand (this was before key fabs). I somehow dropped the keys right when I closed the door and the keys got wedged in the door. My door was locked so I couldn't get them out so I had to call roadside assistance. Made it back to jury duty right in the nick of time though!
L Johnson 1 year ago
This is for old people, if you remember wearing these...had pettipants on...okay...they are like a slip only look like giant underwear. Walking thru a large department store and I started feeling something crawling down my backside. All of a sudden, as I took another step, the pettipants fell to the floor. Trying to act nonchalant, I used my shoe, hooked them on my toe and flipped them up in the air into my hand. Hardly missing a step, I threw them in my purse. When I got home, found out the waist elastic had let go, along with whole back seam. No way to save them!! Complete disintegration! Hope I didn't traumatize too many people. No store cameras back then, thank gawd!!!!
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