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Steve:  Look at it this way, you have harvested all your bad luck, things are now going to go so well, it will shock you!   Guarandamnteed!
About losing your wallet:   A VERY LONG time ago, I was touring England, and had my pocket picked.. Luckily, I had my passport and most of my cash in another place.
I had heard a rumor that the pickpockets are gentlemen, and take the money from your wallet, and put the wallet into the nearest post box...  where it is then turned over to the police.. so I reported the incident, and when I got home I replaced all the critical stuff..
THREE MONTHS later, I got a letter from the police in that city, saying they had recovered the wallet.  (This was the era when air mail cost extra, so they had sent it via ocean mail!)
They requested that I remit ~$3.00 to pay for the cost of mailing it to me!

Rudy Sedlak

--- On Fri, 8/28/09, stephengregory5849 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: stephengregory5849 <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: I made it to Allentown!
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 8:07 PM

Well Kenny, what happened today makes three. I start work on Monday, so I decided to do all my laundry at a local laundrymat and get that done so I didn't need to worry about that for a while.
After I did the wash, I needed some more quarters for the dryers. So I went to the coin changer they had inside and pulled out my wallet for a bill to change into quarters. I had a five dollar bill that was folded around the edges, so I sat my wallet down on top of the coin changer and straightened the bill out so it would go into the machine. I got my quarters and walked over to the dryers to feed them some quarters and stupidly left my wallet sitting on top of the changer. As soon as I fed the dryers, I realized that I didn't have my wallet and went back to the change machine to get it, it took less than 2-minutes, and my wallet was gone. CRAP! There wasn't but 5 or 6 of us in the laundry, but one person had just left. I'm sure she was the one that saw my wallet laying there, grabbed it, and took off. It had a little over $100 in it, but the cash wasn't as important as the rest of the stuff that was in it. My new Pennsylvania drivers license, my social
 security card that I don't normally carry, but I had show it to get my new Pennsylvania drivers license as one form of ID to prove who I am. I don't have any credit cards, but I did have my bank account debit card, and another debit card that I got from the state of Oklahoma for the few weeks of unemployment that I got. Also my health insurance card was there too, I'll be needing that because I filed for COBRA until my insurance kicks in at my new job. I wished she would have just taken the money and threw my wallet out in the parking lot when she left. I hate to pin blame on someone like that because I didn't actually see her do it, but I was aware of where everybody else was inside the laundrymat, and she was the only one who could have taken it. It all happened so quick. It was my own damn fault for leaving my wallet laying there like that. I hope the money that was in my wallet will be going to good use like feeding some kids or something...

So I've spent most of my evening contacting my bank and cancelling my debit card and requesting a new one, calling Oklahoma unemployment cancelling that card and requesting a new one too, calling the police and filing a report which the Federal Trade Commission says you should do to when you are exposed to the possibility of identity theft, and I've filed a fraud alert with the credit reporting agencies in case someone tries to use my identity. Tomorrow morning I'm going to have to go and get a replacement drivers license, they're open from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturdays.

I'll tell you, lately it seems that if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. The part that bothers me most about what happened today, is that I've lost a little more faith in my fellow human being. My uncle used to always say to me; "Steve, don't ever trust anybody but yourself..." and I used to think that he was too negative, and a little bitter. Now I realize that he was probably right...and that's too bad.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Bloomquist" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: I made it to Allentown!


> Hey Steve,
> 
> Welcome to your new home!
> 
> Bad traffic,
> Broken toe,
> Two down;
> Only one to go!
> 
> After that you should be good for the duration.
> 
> I hope the new job works out as planned and life is good.
> 
> KennyB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephengregory5849 [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 4:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] NTC: I made it to Allentown!
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I would give an update. I
> made the 1,252-mile trek from Tulsa to Allentown, PA for my new job. The
> trip was pretty uneventful. I loaded my U-haul truck up and my PT Cruiser on
> a trailer, and headed east. The only traffic problem I had to speak of was
> when I went through the Indianapolis, Indiana area. They were doing
> construction on a portion of the interstate that had the traffic down to one
> lane for about 5-miles and that had things backed-up terribly. It was
> backed-up about 5-miles before the contruction, it took almost 2-hours to
> get through that mess. The only other negative thing is that U-haul trucks
> are not known for having the best gas milage, especially when towing a car
> trailer. I burned through almost $400 in gas on the trip.
> 
> I arrived in Allentown and checked into a hotel to rest a day, to prepare to
> unload everything into my new apartment. Even that went pretty well. I had
> scheduled unload help through U-haul, they contact helpers in your area if
> you want them, an you get two people at $50 an hour for both of them. I
> contracted them for two hours and figured that it would be $100 well spent
> after driving for 1,200 miles. They showed-up on time and had the truck
> unloaded in about an hour and a half. Now the real work for me was ahead,
> getting everything out of boxes and put away, and getting all my stuff
> arranged inside my new nest.
> 
> Pretty boring stuff huh?
> 
> Well, I'm typing out this email this evening after my return from a local
> urgent care clinic. Here's the story. I had my living room my furniture
> arranged where I wanted it, and started to hanging my paintings and pictures
> on the wall. I was carrying one of the larger ones to a place where I was
> about to hang it (I was in my stocking feet), and managed to hit a couch leg
> with my little toe on my right foot. After a couple of expletitives, the
> pain subsided and I finished hanging the painting. I put a few more pictures
> up, opened some more boxes and put some more stuff away. But I felt that
> something wasn't quite right with my little toe. It didn't really hurt that
> bad, but it didn't feel quite right. So I sat down and pulled my sock off,
> and this is what I saw:
> 
> http://stevezeva.homestead.com/files/broken_little_toe.JPG
> 
> I had never broken a toe before, but I've never had one turn that purple, so
> I thought I'd better get it checked out. After a couple of x-rays, the
> doctor confirmed it."Yep, your toe is broken" he said, "but there's not a
> whole lot we can do for it other than buddy-tape it to the toe next to it."
> So he told me how to buddy tape it, gave me some Tylenol #3, and told me to
> wear thick soled shoes for the next few weeks to keep it from flexing while
> it heals.
> 
> Great. Pick-up and move 1,200 miles, get here, and break my friggen' toe
> hanging a picture. Moral of the story: Don't be a klutz like me. Thankfully,
> it doesn't hurt much at all and I can still get around fairly well. Won't be
> running any 100-yard dashes for a while, but I'll be fine.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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