What is the unluckiest thing that ever happened to you?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is the unluckiest thing that ever happened to you? (previously 2017)

Actual luck:

• winning 1 cent
• fantasy football
• an acorn fell on my head
• I think I'm kinda allergic to popsicle sticks :(
• west nile fever
• stub my toe
• losing stuff

Referencing or at least very close to referencing their luckiest things from earlier in the week:

• taking algo :( jk
• going here
• getting sick from Sharples dinner 5x now this semester
• chicken nuggets deemed unhealthy

Some were just extremely unfortunate or saddening.

• near brush with death
• *sighs*
• 6 month long concussion
• *breaks into tears*
• being
• I don't want to think about it.
• getting my heart broken
• my hamster ran away when I was little

Kudos to "sleeping in on the day of my good life choices" --- very confusing. Does this mean that sleeping in was a good choice, or that sleeping in caused you to miss the opportunity to make good choices?

This post's theme word is blate (v intr), "to babble or cry" or (adj), "timid." The succession of so many unlucky events spurred an outburst of blating across campus.

What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you? (previously 2017)

Traditional:

• got into Swat
• life!
• opportunity to go to college
• born in a first world country
• winning Harry Potter Broadway tickets
• I once found two packs of gummi worms in a vending machine
• that I was born at all (the odds were against me)
• my cat wandered onto our porch
• won a raffle

Some people wanted to defer the question:

• hasn't happened yet
• opportunity met preparation
• idk I'm grateful for most things that have happened to me
• lots of things
• don't believe in luck
• TBD
• can't think of just one
• not sure
• yes
• not lucky

Begrudgingly I acknowledge that yet again someone claimed that taking this class was their luckiest life event. I can't be bribed! ... at least not so openly.

My favorite was definitely "Fell backwards off Willets bannister, landed on feet" --- whoo, what luck!

This post's theme word is hotsy-totsy (adj), "just right; perfect" or "haughty; pretentious." That is my preferred hotsy-totsy way of descending staircases.