The Laranang Curse
'Ailina on Family : May 15th, 2008
Irony of ironies…psyche appointment cancelled due to an act of God.
Tornado hit the business center overnight. I have to laugh about that. To borrow a word used by character Detective Smecker (who derided another detective’s abominable misuse of the English language) in Boondock Saints (1999): The “symbology” of that–natural disaster supersedes/reflects/fulfills personal disaster–is astounding.
What is also laughable is the latest manifestation of “The Laranang Curse.” Previously, sibs and I frequently alluded to a dreaded “Laranang Luck,” which dispenses benign-yet-monumentally-aggravating quagmires like being that one unlucky jerk…
- who–every single time–gets the malfunctioned merchandise after saving and anticipating a purchase for months in advance
- whose paperwork is inevitably and mysteriously “lost” by the handlers at the most critical moment so that everything unravels from there
- who predictably gets the wrong food order so she has to either 1) exchange and wait, thereby holding up the line and pissing everyone off because she’s “that person,” or 2) she has to eat what she paid for but didn’t get
- who consistently looks like a jerk because someone else has committed an infraction and fled, and she’s the only one standing there when everyone finally notices something’s amiss
- who gets rained out
- who gets held up
- who is the jerk in line right behind the last person served
Well, Mother Nature seems to have it in for all of us, and she’s made no secret about it. In a matter of two weeks…
- tornado hops over Biggest Sis in Missouri
- tornado hops over Little Bro in Georgia
- tornado hops over Littler Bro in Oklahoma
On the phone with them in the aftermath, I pointed and laughed. “It could be raining everywhere else in this city but over OUR HOUSE. Looks like we escaped Laranang Luck this time.”
ha ha.
Early in the A.M., tornado hops over ‘Ailina and Littler Sis in Louisiana, and wrecks her psyche appointment. Who’s the jerk in the long line of Laranangs who got a chicken bone shaken at them?
