unluckily lucky

Before JT & I got married he warned me. He let me know what I was getting into with the Patton name.  No matter what, things just seemed to not work out for us, luck wise. He said we’ve had a couple of times that we could have been rich but for whatever reason it just didn’t work out. His mom’s family owned a grocery store and apparently his grandma wasted away the family’s fortune on QVC and other “stuff” before she passed away. His dad was offered a chance to get in on the ground floor of some weird sounding company called “Arby’s” after he got out of the Army, but decided to pass up the uncertain business opportunity with this new concept of fast-food and drive-thru’s.

I was okay with this. I don’t need or want to be rich. I just want to have enough money to pay my bills. Well yesterday maybe our unluckiness actually worked in our favor for once! haha.

JT’s durango has been having some transmission problems. We’d kept it in the driveway for the most part since we work at the same company and have the same work hours. JT started teaching a training class this week for new hires and his hours changed dramatically from 9 am-5:30 pm to 7:30 am-4:00 pm.  So we decided that it was probably time to get the car fixed so I didn’t have get up at 5:30 am!! We weren’t sure how expensive it would be because transmission issues are usually not cheap. The shop down the street gave us an estimate of $600-$800. Our second estimate was $450. So we called and let the other shop know we were going with another option. Well they went ahead and took out the transmission by mistake and JT got an “oops” call from them around noon. They admitted that they’d made a mistake and would fix things for $450. Sold!!

Then later yesterday after work, my craving for a good burger got the best of me. We went to Red Robin *hmmm*. (That’s a part of the jingle ) Well it took forever to get our food and then it wasn’t right. Before our food came, JT said “I wonder if we can get a free milkshake out of this?” I rolled my eyes and said stop acting like your Dad. When the food came (delivered by the manager), he realized that the order was wrong and immediately apologized about it being unacceptable to have taken this long and the order to be incorrect. He rushed us a new order with NO mayo on my burger and said he’d be taking care of the bill and hoped we’d come back again. Wow. That was cool. I wasn’t even expecting that or asking for a free meal- so what a pleasant surprise.

Who knows kids, maybe I’ve broken the Patton family curse! We’ll see…