Maegan Bledsoe: I had to move a dryer by myself (I actually knew how to repair the old one & the part I needed cost as much as a replacement…so I thought, “SURE, I can do this on my own!”)…It was painful. A possum got in to my house TWICE. IT TOUCHED MY BABY. I’ve been on crutches. I nearly threw up on his captain (husband was TDY, I had to see someone else in the office for a PCS issue…he wasn’t there…I panicked, got dizzy & tried to throw up in a trash can just as the Captain was coming out of his office – I went through a weird phase where all frustration & stress came out as vomit).
Jennifer Ward: Let’s see…on this deployment, we’re in two months and I was in a car accident a little over a week after he left, I’ve had to take our daughter to the ER, I’ve had to go to Immediate Care, was nearly in another accident last night, and the pool pump is broken.
Lauren Kolberg: While my husband was in NC getting ready to leave, we had an earthquake (just a tiny shake with no damage, but enough to scare me!) The day my husband was flying to Afghanistan I was evacuating for a hurricane (ended up being nothing major.) I ran over a pole in the yard and broke the lawn mower. I forgot to start his car every month so the battery died on a rainy Saturday morning which meant I had to jump it myself and take it to be repaired. He told me to replace the A/C filter every 3 months. I found out when the A/C broke and cost a ton to repair that it should have been every month. He called me on New Year’s after I hadn’t talked to him in about a week and I got so excited after talking to him I apparently forgot the speed limit and got a nasty speeding ticket that required a $600 lawyer. The dog ran away…twice by escaping the 6 foot privacy fence and I still have not figured out how he did it. I didn’t go into the old, wooden shed in the yard for 7 months and when I finally did I found out a nice family of rats had moved in since it was vacant. Those are just the things I remember at this moment.
Brenna Escarciga: I ran into a fire hydrant when pulling out of the hangar parking lot from dropping him off. He wasn’t even on the plane, and I ruined the front bumper of our new truck. Some things you just have to laugh about.
Elissa Elledge Mobley: We always seem to have a major medical event that involves either a hospital stay or a trip to the ER.
Alicia Grab-Barnett: Within the first three months:
-ticks getting in the house (yay old housing!) that started my own 8-legged terrorist war; backed up sink; gas leak from the stove (we ate waffles that night); two of three kids got pneumonial; locked myself out of the house 3 times (in one week!); parts of my van stopped and started working again (randomly); I’m sure they’ll be more but we still have 9 months to go!
Sue Ellen Mays: My husband is half way though his deployment and this has been a long one! We own a home and our renters destroyed the house. So I’m dealing with that. My car messed up, we are going on 3 weeks of my kids taking turns being sick, and as well as me getting sick enough to go to the hospital. And the dryer is about to give out on us. Oh, and I’m 6 months pregnant. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right…well that’s what I keep telling myself. I do believe in deployment curses.
Jess Meuser: There is always a natural disaster while he is gone. First time was a flood, second deployment was an earthquake, and this last time was an ice storm that left the house without power for a week. As I watched the temp dropping and started freaking out over the thought of broken pipes our neighbor came to the rescue with a generator. The phone company will always kick me off the plan and will be a continuous battle the whole time he is gone to keep my cell going, pay the bill….this last deployment I thought I was going to have to get a lawyer involved because the LP company decided to charge us double. When I ask them to get their tank so I could have it replaced with a more reasonable provider, they refused. The insurance company said they could only make the check out to my husband and he would have to sign it over to the body shop. Again, this took several phone calls to fix. A neighbor’s dog got loose and started slaughtering our chickens. On the hottest day of the year my family and I were fighting a nest of horseflies to fix the chicken fence. And our dog was bit by a tick and contracted Rock Mountain Spotted Fever, the only case in our county. I was first told it was cancer and he would have to be put down, thank God for second opinions!! And this doesn’t even count the stupid stuff I end up doing that will require a doctor visit because of my lack of thinking.
Lindsey Roeske: His mother will find a way to tick you off. Never fails.
Belen Garcia Dela Vega: At some point, you will need a good car mechanic, locksmith, and/or towing company. During his Afghanistan deployment (his 3rd, but my 1st.) His brand new car DIED, yes DIED. My best friend, her husband, and my sister ALL tried to get it to work because he was coming home in less then a week and nothing. 🙁 I had been moving the car around so that wouldn’t happen but it did anyway, it was also a stick shift (I cant drive it for the life of me) but I was able to move it around from time to time without any major issues, so I ended up sending him an email saying, “Honey, I am sorry, but I killed your car.” We laugh about it now because it was just a battery issue, but I was SO mortified.
Debbie Hendrix: During my husband’s deployment, everything listed has happened, broken dryer…. the drum completely fell apart and it ate clothes and ruined so many things. Crazy kids and things with them. I was rear ended and car was in the shop, I have learned how to fix a variety of things. I have dealt with huge spiders and now just say die sucker when they cross my path… I will never forget the centipede in my washer, I still have no clue how that thing got in there. Yesterday’s annoyance was hearing my dogs splashing and looking out back to see that our swimming pool decided to empty itself and flood the backyard…go figure on how that happened. It is always something to drive you crazy. I would much rather go through all these annoyances than my husband have to go through them and much worse happen to him. So go ahead Murphy, what’s next?
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