Coffee 33/50

Misfortune

"It brings bad luck if you fill a cup that is not empty."

That is what the waitress told us, and then she filled our cups anyway. This happened few years ago, when me and my wife were visiting my mother. We had a nice lunch in a restaurant, and were having a cup of coffee for a desert. The waitress politely offered to fill our cups, and while doing it, she told this old superstition. And so she jinxed us!

After lunch we went out to a rocky seashore, to get some fresh air. My mother walked ahead of us, probably thinking she is still a six year old young girl. And so she fell on her back, and hit her head on the rock. Blood was bleeding, and the nice walk outside became in to a sudden end.

I drove my wife back to my mother's place, and rushed to take my mother to the local health care unit. And once we arrived there, we found out it was closed, and we have to go to the nearest open outpatient clinic and hospital, which was a hundred kilometres away.

So, we drove to the next town, and I was all the time chatting nervously to my mother, to make sure she is awake and okay. At the hospital we had to wait some more to get to the doctor, and to get mother's head examined and scanned.

It was late at night before we got back home. Luckily it was only a scratch bad enough to cause bleeding, and bruised ego to my mom.

But ever since we have been superstitious enough to avoid filling a cup of coffee that is not empty.