People know me by my uncanny ability to break things especially if I have bought them myself. And I’ve been like that always, boy and man. Usually if I buy something myself it is either already broken or it breaks on first use. These include but are not limited to: toys (as a child it was a standard), a VCR, CD player, clothing and computers (+ games). There was a point where, if it was at all possible, I made somebody else to choose the product package from the shelf if I wanted to buy something more expensive - and even that didn’t always work.
Lately my speciality has been coffee cups and glasses. During the little over year I’ve been in the service of my current employer I’ve broken five or six coffee cups, all that I bought myself.
At home I rarely drink anything out of a coffee cup though so I demolish glasses. I think I’ve broken around six glasses this year alone. They say that glass splinters bring good fortune. If that was to be true, I should be a billionaire and living in the Bahamas. And obviously I am not.
About my working breaking career still. In my first job I got a brand new laptop as my work equipment. It was perfectly good laptop except that the keyboard was faulty and it didn’t register pressing certain keys on the first stroke. So it was a bit of a drag trying to work on the machine. Luckily the keyboard was later replaced. In my current job I succeeded to destroy my laptop there by knocking over a half full cup of coffee on my table and the laptop just couldn’t handle all the caffeine.