Heads or Tails

For this weeks "Heads of Tails" meme the subject is "luck".

I'll recall a bit of luck that happened about 3 years ago. I had been driving over to the other side of the state to see my then girlfriend/fiancee Barb (who is now my wife :)), and as I recall I was
laid off and had started to drive back to my side of the state to pick up my last weeks paycheck. I had traded in my pickup truck the previous year (which had died lol) and bought a used Mercury Grand Marquis to drive.

Well, as I got onto the freeway to head back, a few miles into this journey the low oil pressure light came on and the engine started to make lots of bad noises. I knew there wasn't much I could do but head back to Barbs and see about some other way to get my check.

Well, part of the "luck" came into play as I made it within walking distance of her apartment just as the engine gasped it's last breath. The other part of my "luck" happened in that the previous year I had bought a 95 Dodge Intrepid for Barb to drive. I was lucky enough to have another vehicle to use to get back and forth so I didn't have to immediately get another one. To end the story, I eventually got the engine in the Grand Marquis rebuilt and it still lives today.