Horrible Luck

For this blog we’re supposed to write about any topic we’d like. I was originally going to write about my picks for the coming up March Madness Tournament. But I figured that’d be a little boring so I decided I would tell a story about an event that happened to me the first Sunday of break. It all started a few weeks ago. I found out that during an ISU radio show on a Saturday night they would be giving out tickets to T.I. at U of I. Knowing that there probably would be no one listening to the ISU radio on channel 5 at 8-10 pm on a Saturday night, I stayed in until about 9:30 and the giveaway finally started. I immediately called in and ended up winning the tickets. Even though I’m not a huge rap fan, I was excited because I usually don’t win things and have horrible luck. I decided to take my girlfriend who goes to DePaul and knew I would have to drive her back early on Monday morning. When Sunday came along (the day of the concert), the weather was very bad. But despite this, we drove from my hometown of Oak Lawn (south side of Chicago) all the way to Champaign. The wind and weather was bad the whole drive there but I figured it’d be worth it to see the concert. When I got off at the Champaign exit after 2 and a half hours of driving, I got a call from a friend of mine who said the concert was canceled because the power was out. After this, I stayed at U of I for about an hour and decided that I would go to ISU to pick up my power cord for my laptop which I had forgotten. With the horrible weather I spent the night at ISU. When I got here the whole campus was dead and no one was in site. I asked the guy at the front desk and he said “free parking”. The next day I woke up to leave at 10 in the morning to find out I got a parking ticket. After that, I drove from ISU to DePaul then back to my house. Four and a half hours later, I was home. With a canceled concert, 7 hours of driving, a parking ticket later, I’d consider it one of the worst experiences of my life.