I swear, Some Days I Have to Wonder

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If you can picture this, I park my riding lawn mower facing forward to back out in the garage on the left side, toward the overhead door. Behind that goes my self-propelled push mower. I usually back the push mower in, pull up the seat on the rider and sort of tuck the handle for the push mower under it without it fully coming down. That gives me about a foot or so of clearance from where the overhead door is so I can open and close it without it getting in the way. This morning, I went out and started the door opening as I was going to make a quick run to the gas station to fill up my gas can. As the door was opening I turned to do something else when I heard a strange noise. When I turned my attention back to the overhwead door the front end of my push mower had caught onto the bottom piece of the door and was being hauled into the air as the door went up. By the time I got to it, it dislodged itself, crashed down, and it knocked off the bar that has to be held down to keep the mower running. I stood there for a second or two thinking, how in the hell does this sort of thing only ever happen to me? And still, I can't pick the winning six lottery numbers to save my life!