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This website, to some extent, has been used as an electronic retelling of “The Starling Bad Luck”. As much as I would love to provide links to past posts that deal with the bad luck…I don’t have all day. So here’s a brief summary of what means:

I don’t know who my ancestors managed to cross, but they put a curse on the good Starling name. Now before some you ladies out there start thinking twice about adding Starling on your name, let me explain this: It only affects the men in our family by birth. My brother, my dad, my dad’s brothers, my nephews, my grandfather, men: we all have it. To put it simply: nothing is easy and nothing ever goes our way.

Like the tide, the ol’ luck ebbs and flows. Lately, it seems like it has been flowing on Kari’s car. You see, in the past month the following has happened:

• Our neighbor tried to do Kari a favor for jumping off her car. She thought she would be nice and check the oil in Kari’s car…thereby breaking the top of the dipstick. I told Kari to never, ever accept favors from anyone when it involves popping the hood on her car.
• Kari got a speeding ticket about 3 blocks from our house.
• She got her car broken into.
• This past Sunday her car decided it didn’t want to start after church. She tried to get two people from her church to jump off the car and it didn’t work. Yesterday we got AAA out there to tow the car to our mechanic. He was able to get the car started. While Kari was en route to the shop…it died again…just down the road from the destination. AAA came out again, got the car started again, and it’s currently at the shop. Hopefully it’s just a bad battery.

And just to corroborate the evidence that it only affects men…Kari didn’t have any problems with her car before we got married. And before you point out the car accident…let me remind you that I was a passenger in the car.

I believe that’s called guilty by association.

PS – Kari got her new cell phone from AT&T turned on yesterday. Just FYI in case you’ve been trying to call her.

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