Series of distressing weekends

From being hacked to almost being robbed, to being arrested and detained in a police station, to having a broken phone screen. If at all that will be the end of these unfortunate situations on different weekends.

I keep asking if one's life can get any worse. While I was thinking about that, I had to remind myself that others have had it more difficult.

Family is such that if one person is challenged, it affects others, especially those who care.

I wrote some days ago about the account of a family member of mine that got hacked. Since the card got lost while it was with me, I had to take responsibility for it.

I feel like he's been going through bad situations one after another since then. His house almost got robbed. Luckily, someone got in. According to what I was told, the presence of someone on the premises made the thieves run away leaving behind everything they wanted to steal. It wouldn't have been pleasant if they had taken away his properties which cost a lot of money. We still don't know how they got in. He probably forgot to lock his door.

Last Sunday, I felt like something wasn't right, and that was because we had not heard from him since the previous day Saturday, which was very unusual. He had not come to visit or called to say hello like he usually does.

Every time I dialed the phone number, it said switched off. All of us decided he probably had other engagements that weekend and couldn't charge his phone.

Later that Sunday evening, my phone rang. It was him. As soon as I answered the phone, I asked, "What's happened to your line since morning?"

He replied in a hushed voice saying that his battery was flat. At first, I wondered why he was talking in a hushed tone. However, he mentioned that he was arrested and was only given a few minutes to charge and power on the phone. This meant he could call anyone he needed to call to get them informed about the issue.

I was so shocked when he said he was arrested, so I asked him what had happened.

According to him, an old customer called him for a job. (PS: He is a mechanical engineer) The car was a Mercedes Benz whose engine got damaged. The problem appeared to have developed while the car was on the road.

She couldn't drive her car home when it happened. The next day, she called him to come to check it out.

Afterward, he had to tell her the car would have to be towed.

Long story short, he discovered that the car also had electrical issues. After working on the engine, he rented a car battery and drove the car to the woman's house.

After arriving at her house on Saturday night, the woman decided to turn off the engine and start it again to make sure it was working. But the car did not start. He noticed her dissatisfaction and explained that the car had an electrical problem, which was not his job.

The woman responded by telling him to leave and come back after the weekend. She wanted to be sure the car was in working condition before she released any money. He replied that, if not the whole balance, at least some of it should be given to him because he needed some cash. The balance was about $70. He got insults from the lady instead of money or a positive response, which made him angry, so he insisted on collecting his money.

According to him, at some point during the exchange of words, the woman walked up to her aluminum door net. She hit it with her hands, causing it to be damaged. These events took place on Saturday night before he was arrested on Sunday afternoon.

He added that he returned home that Saturday night and returned to the woman's house with his tools and engineering cloth. He wanted to find a way to start the car so the woman could verify that the car had been worked on.

However, the woman seemed to have her plans ready. When he got there, she quietly told her husband to call and get the police.

The woman probably knew that she couldn't send him to jail unless there was wilful damage which she did herself. As a result, she lied to the police, saying he harassed her in her home and did it. She has been insisting that he must go to court.

Based on the situation, I told him that he should have been patient and not raised his voice because there are other ways he could fight for his rights. He could have taken it to the police first.

Understandably, the woman didn't feel pleased because she couldn't start the car herself. However, she should have taken into account that the car that was towed from the road to his workshop was driven to her house from a very distant location.

He explained that he had customers like that who would tell him to leave and come back later only for them to forget about him. That experience was what made him insist because he didn't want to go through that kind of stress again.

Although the issue has not been resolved, he has been released from detention.

These unexpected issues caused him to waste money on things he shouldn't be spending on. On Sunday last week, he spent a huge amount of money so he would be bailed out.

Something else happened on Sunday. He forgot that his ceiling fan wasn't so high up. As he got up from where he sat to stretch his body, the ceiling fan hit his hand. The iPhone he was holding landed on the tiled floor. The screen and touchpad were not spared. They got broken.

Good thing, the screen wasn't covered with ink and the touchpad was still working even though it got badly broken.

Now he has to spend unplanned money fixing his phone.

I told him to fast and pray. Maybe there are some extraordinary forces behind it. Feel free to say I'm being too spiritual.

Has there ever been a time you had a series of bad lucks consecutively that made you wonder if forces were behind it? What coping skills helped you stay sane?

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