49/ Shazzy makes me happy.

1.) Ann Hodges

Why she’s unlucky: The only person ever to be hit by a meteorite.

You know you’re really unlucky when you’re the only person in history to get hit by a meteorite. While taking a nap on her couch November 30, 1954, a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house and injured her on the hip. It was the size of a grapefruit. While she was getting public offers of up to $5,000 for the meteorite, the U.S. Airforce immediately came and took the fallen object. However, her husband sued the government and eventually won it back after another fight with the landlord, who wanted it to help pay for the damages caused by the crash landing. After winning the “lucky” rock, no one cared about it anymore and the meteorite was donated to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

2.) Henry Ziegland

Why he’s unlucky: Killed by a bullet that was lodged in tree for 20 years.

Okay, so meteorites are not your thing and it’s just a crazy coincidence with Ann Hodges, right? Well, try this story. In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend. She was so upset about it that she committed suicide. Her brother, enraged about her death and blaming Ziegland for it, did the most reasonable and rational thing he could – he went to kill Ziegland. The brother shot Ziegland and then took his own life. Unfortunately for the brother, the bullet went past Ziegland and ended up lodged in a tree. Lucky, right? Not for Henry. 20 years later, Henry wanted to remove the tree, and since he wasn’t able to do it himself, he used some dynamite. You see where this is going. The explosion caused the bullet in the tree to fly right to Ziegland’s head, killing him instantly.

3.) Violet Jessop

Why she’s unlucky: On board three sinking ships.

Violet Jessop was on board when three ships sank. Not just any ships though. Her first ship was theOlympic in 1911. The ship crashed into a British warship. Jessop’s next stop was a ship you may have heard of – the Titanic. She managed to survive the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic and moved on to its sister ship, the Britanic. That ship hit a mine and sank off the coast of Greece. Violet Jessop survived all three without a scratch.

4.) Roy Sullivan

Why he’s unlucky: Struck by lightning 7 times.

Roy Sullivan was a park ranger in Virginia that was struck by lightning 7 times between 1942 and 1977. He survived each strike. After a few strikes, Sullivan started carrying a bucket of water around with him to prevent the lightning from following him. Ironically enough, his wife also was struck one time. The chances of being struck by lightning seven times? 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (septillion) (Ed + Vinnie: it does go over quadrillion!) to one.

5.) Robert Todd Lincoln

Why he’s unlucky: Present/Nearby for three presidential assassinations.

Robert Todd Lincoln was the son of President Abraham Lincoln. When Robert was 21, his father was infamously assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. While Robert was not at Ford’s Theatre, he was staying at the White House nearby. 16 years later, while serving as President Garfield’s Secretary of War, he was witness to Garfield being gunned down before they were able to get on a train to New Jersey together. Now, you would think Lincoln would become a hermit at this point and avoid anything presidential. But in 1901, President McKinley invited Lincoln to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Lincoln was not an eyewitness to this assassination, but he certainly was close enough to hear the bullets. Lincoln never attended a presidential function again, except for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922.

6.) Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence

Why they are unlucky: Tourists during three terrorist attacks.

If this couple is coming to a city near you, it might be wise to leave. The couple was in New York during the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Okay, a lot of people were in New York that day, so what? Well, the couple then was visiting London in 2005 when the underground bombings took place on July 7, the worst terrorist attack in their history. Their vacationing wasn’t done. In 2008, they visited Mumbai. There, they witnessed the worst terrorist attack in India’s history.

7.) Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Why he’s unlucky: He was in Hiroshima AND Nagaski during each bombing.

This may be the worst luck of all (or best luck, depending on your point of view). In history, there has been only two cities that have been destroyed by an atomic bomb. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in both of those cities and lived to tell about it. He was on business in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 when Hiroshima was attacked. Yamaguchi was blinded temporarily and his eardrums were ruptured. Obviously, Hiroshima was not the place to conduct business so Yamaguchi went back home – to Nagasaki. After just three days, Yamaguchi went back to work.While he was in the process of describing the explosion of Hiroshima to his boss, Nagasaki was attacked. Each time, he was 3 km away from ground zero. Yamaguchi survived both attacks and lived to be 93 years old and died of stomach cancer in 2010. Worst luck of all, or luckiest man alive?

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Just, oh damn.

Mm, anyhow. Today was rather uneventful. Tried hard to study during my free, but Jack was being the biggest douche and edwardo-ed me. I was using Esther's computer and doing perfectly well in my English BUT THEN HE STOLE IT and Esther got mad and took it away from him, AND ME +_+ freakingdamn. So I had no computer to use and it was so much harder to do work after that ):

Ancient was epic though. We had a sub, who just put on a vid for us to watch for all of first and most of the second period. I fell asleep, of course. Woke up just as it ended (Y). So we still had about half an hour left so we were doing these questions that we had to do - basically just comprehension. Danny takes out his laptop, and this was when the fun began. Shazzy and I were just basically deciding who was going to type and who wasn't, and ... I don't know, I tried explaining it to Janny afterwards but it was a had-to-be-there moment, you know? haha. It was hilarious though. There was one time during it when Shazzy decided to do show "evolution".

EVOLUTION:

(: (: (: (: (:

Basically like that HAHAHA. Except it was on Word where it automatically changed it to the actual smiley faces. And she had about 20 or so. It was taking her forever to change them into different font sizes, so Danny takes the computer and puts:

(: Creationism

LOL. Touche.

Eventually we went back to finishing the work but then Shazzy started complaining about how she was being redundant because she wasn't doing anything, so she took a pen and stuck it in front of my face while I was typing. Both Danny and I were like "Shazzy what are you doing o_o" and she's like "I'm trying to make myself useful" ROFLS.

Okay so, like I said! IT WAS A HAD-TO-BE-THERE MOMENT. Her expression and tone of voice... FREAKING LOLLLLL.

:D aha shazzy. I nearly started crying from laughing so hard during that class.

My nose is coldddd ): I hate this weather.

x

ps.
Four years ago, when i was 18, i noticed that at night my front window is very reflective so i was pretending to dive in slow motion and shoot, dual pistol style. Suddenly a really hot girl walked past and i was startled and fell over. Embarrassed i waited for a bit and then stood up. As i stoop up i saw her slowly shooting an imaginary rifle from behind a car. We then proceeded to do this for 10 minutes until she did an extremely dramatic death. She wasn't getting up so i went outside to meet her. Once i got to where she was, there was nothing but a piece of paper with a mobile number on it. Today, we are getting married. MLIA

Too awesome.