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Bad things do happen to me quite a lot, but I don't really see a pattern of them occurring in threesomes.

I just realized that my mother's mother died six years ago, my mother died four years ago, my father's mother died two years and my dad nearly died.. Oh wait that was last year.

Anyway, three family members dying at two year intervals.

Thats a Little weird.

When bad stuff happens its generally because im being an idiot. And thats quite a bit, so I dont really realize if its in threesomes.

Bad things happen if you're supersticious. My mum is a bit supersticious... One day a couple of years ago we were out in the car going to pick up a cat basket and a big metal cage for my (then) puppy from a friend of a friend. As we were getting the stuff in the boot, a car sped past and a woman screamed, it was the woman we got the dog cage and cat basket from. Her own cat had just been ran over by the car that drove past, ironic much!
My mum warned me to stay sitting in the boot while she went and helped the woman move the cat off the road. Then when she came back to the boot she was crying and complaining about it being a 'sign' of bad luck..
THEN she stepped in a pothole in the pavement and the heel of her boot snapped off. She got home and made me burn a couple of candles to 'stop a 3rd bad thing from happening'! Apparantly if 3 bad things happen, you have perpetual bad luck for 7 years. That's what she told me haha.

Hang on...

Pazx?

Over time, I think bad things happen in extremely large numbers that might be divisible by three. Simplified, if 102 bad things happen over several years, we might perceive it as 34 groups of three bad things.
Even if the larger number isn't divisble by three, it won't matter. People will just ignore a few of the bad things so that they will fit nicely into organized groups.

I don't think many people go, 'Over the last 5 years 102 bad things have happened to me. That means that 34 groups of 3 bad things happened. Oh no, I'm the most unluckiest person evar!'

. . . Jess! Hi!

Anyway, for me, bad things always happen in 1s, although sometimes three 1s of bad things happen in quick succession.

In my experience, bad things rarely happen at all, but when they do it's a veritable s*it storm, and I think that would count for more than three.

im not that superstitious, but i happen to keep 60 4 leaf clovers in a book in my room. I don't have good luck with big things like winning the lottery or slot machines. more like everytime i shoot a basketball and it hangs on the rim for a second, it will always drop in. or im playing soccer and i hit the post with the ball, it bounces in and not out of the goal

. . . Caleb! Hi!

Bad things don't happen to me.. at all.. Or if they do, I don't realise. So many things happen to me in general xP

don't think many people go, 'Over the last 5 years 102 bad things have happened to me. That means that 34 groups of 3 bad things happened. Oh no, I'm the most unluckiest person evar!'

Also, 3 is a 'special' number for the supersticious.
But does it really matter? I mean seriously? During a typical day of mine, roughly half of it is bad and half of it is good. I don't keep track of the bad things, I don't keep track of the good things; they just happen. I think pretty much half of my life is a bad thing.

yes they do for example

girl i was going out with broke up with me... number 1

girl broke up with me at homecoming.... number 2

the next day started going out with another guy.......number 3

Bad things happen to me too often for me to be able to tell if they happen in threes.

That is soooo weird. Things like that never happen to me. But I do remember that Michael Jackson, Farrah Faucet, and Billy Mays all died close to each other. So I guess that is Bad things happening in threes.

Hang on...
Pazx?

yes they do for example
girl i was going out with broke up with me... number 1
girl broke up with me at homecoming.... number 2
the next day started going out with another guy.......number 3

This might be more clear:
An extremely large amount of bad things will happen to you in your life time. You won't be able to keep track of all of them. So instead they will divide everything into groups of three (as they happen) because that is easier to handle.
They don't necesarily have to realize how many bad things have happened.