Life just sucks sometimes.

[ks8829]

Just like golf you have to play it where it lies and sometimes you get the favorable breaks and sometime you don't. Its how you react to the difficult situations that helps built character in a young man and women.

[dave s]

Sorry for your rasher of 'bad luck' finding you!

Something my dad said to me years ago that really stuck during a string of 'bad luck' that was following me around. He said, 'dave, we make our own luck.'

The reality of your situation is that had you had your iPhone in your pocket, you'd still have it. Unless you were in the ocean swimming, that's PROBABLY where it should have been. Right?

Another example. Went to an Indians game last Friday night. Got home from work later than expected and was in a rush to get to the game. Even though, I took the extra time to take ALL golf equipment and my GPS device from the car. Not giving ANYBODY a reason to break into my car and steal my stuff!

Plus, I park on the street of downtown Cleveland during games rather than in a crowded parking deck. It's a choice I make to minimise risk and the likelihood bad things will happen.

Then again, despite everything you CAN do to help yourself, sometimes the bad guys win!

dave

[tonyy]

What you said is very true Dave. If I left my phone in my pocket, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. It sucks but thinking about what should've been done won't get me my phone back.

I'm slowly realizing that stuff happens and it's how life is. Hopefully the bad guys will get what's coming to them in the end. They may be enjoying their lives and living off other people's hard earned money but their time will come.

So I'll just grow from this experience and not make the same mistake twice.

[adams603]

Hope you have luck getting some money from that guy. I know the feeling when you have something stolen. Right after I got married my wife and I agreed to each take some of our gift money and buy something. I of course bought new clubs. I mean irons,driver the whole nine yards. Exactly 12 days later they were stolen out of my car. I spent the next month going from pawn shop to pawn shop.

[Fraser]

Hey if it makes you feel any better, one of my friend's dads is a cardiologist/Bollywood actor, and needless to say, well-off, and during a party the son was hosting, some uninviteds showed up and stole about $5000 worth of jewelry from his mom's bedroom.

That also happened to my brother's girlfriend. I have a really low opinion of people that steal things or do things like that.

My brother was at the gym a few years ago and whilst he was showering some people broke into his locker and stole his day old phone, wallet, and even his clothes! They went to the high end jeweller nearby and spent about £12,000 on the Amex card I'd given him, emptied his bank account doing cashback at a local supermarket. Luckily they were able to get all the money back but why steal someone's clothes and all that nonsense? Sometimes I wonder if they ever caught those punks, you'd think they'd have decent CCTV at a jewelers like that...of course that was Amex/the police's problem. Last night my effin' doormat was stolen! I live in a high end (or so I thought) apartment complex and woke up this morning to find it gone. According to our management one of our 'neighbours' had some guests over that caused some damage whilst security were in another part of the property...What's wrong with people?

[ks8829]

Sometimes bad luck is good fortune, what are you grateful for in your life?

[Surefire]

About the iPhone, my close buddy said one of his friend's friend started showing off his "new" iPhone. Fishy eh?? Supposedly he "wasn't" at my party but people lie our of their asses like nothing. So I'm gonna investigate some more and hopefully things will work out.

Can you not get the handset blocked? It would be interesting to see if your buddies friends "new" iphone also had problems!

[TCCcaddie]

Life sucks now, my hybrid slipped out of my hands while playing on a rainy day yesterday and flew up in a tree 40 feet up and its still up there. Im going back on thursday hopefully it fell and someone turned it in.