50 yrs young

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2"
<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:

> Catlady, I am developing a morbid interest in such info, as I 
> approach my 50th in a few weeks... anyone care to cheer me with 
> (positive !) suggestions on how to mark the event, the year ahead
> etc??

On my birthday, my friend Regina told me a superstition of which I'd
never heard before (and which doesn't correlate with any astrology or
numerology I've ever heard, and I suspect she made it up) that people
have bad luck when their age is divisible by 7. 

So when I was 49, I had that expensive and stressful problem with the
health inspector, and that expensive and stressful problem with
bedbugs, and my apartment building where I live was put up for sale
(which is stressful to contemplate because surely the purchasers would
want to tear it down and build more densely on this large, grassy lot
with flowerbeds and a few very thick old trees), and I had to move
cubicle at work, and had a lot of stress with a consultant who thought
he could ensure renewal of his contract by keeping his work secret,
and now that I'm no longer 49, those bad things will stop happening. 
I told her that moving cubicle wasn't so bad and my building is still
up for sale and I'm not convinced I'm free of bedbugs yet ... It's
true that that consultant's contract wasn't renewed. It's even true
that Tim's car insurance for 2008 cost a lot less than I expected.

I suppose that would have been more comforting if I'd argued more
forcefully in favor of Regina's superstition being true.