Life’s Little Victories
Life’s Little Victories are those tiny, everyday moments that deserve a little celebration. I recommend throwing a fist (or two) in the air and shouting, “YES!!”
What started as a one-shot strip has since blossomed into a regular reader favorite.
Send me your Victory!
Don’t hold back!! Send in YOUR Little Victories and keep an eye out for ’em in upcoming strips!! Leave your victory in the comments box or email them to keef@kchronicles.com.
The #1 Sent Life’s Little Victory (Ahem–so you don’t need to send that one in any more, okay?):
The sports car that cut you off five minutes ago…
gets bagged by the cops for speeding! YES!
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#(insert huge number here): You give a friend of yours a link to a very obscure song that you’re in love with…
And he not only listens to the song, but looks up the lyrics!
Hey, my Gravatar even works on a different computer! YES!
You pour too much Diet Coke into a glass, but you manage to slurp the fizz off the top before it overflows :)
You perform the simple home repair that your mechanically-savvy wife usually does, cussing and snarling the whole while over how much trouble it is, and then feeling guilty over making such a fuss, but you get it done and it works. Bonus: then your wife tells you that she usually does it while you’re out of the house so you won’t hear how much *she* snarls and cusses while she does it.
the guards at the dining hall in Iraq let you in after hours
the 1Sg yells your name but it is for the other guy with the same name
You can’t find anyone who wants to go in on tickets for the concert, so when you end up buying just one, it’s 5th row in the middle. Yessss!
You manage to get through an entire dishwashing session without once thinking of Keith Knight’s rant on how to clean forks correctly!
Two minutes before you MUST leave the house to go to an appointment, and the cat is still out, after an hour (she usually is back in half an hour). You take a deep breath, open the door one last time, and she pops in.
(Walking in the grassy area next to a parking lot) After slipping in the mud with one foot and losing your balance, you catch your other foot on a bumper laying in the grass (where did that come from?) and begin free fall toward a brand new Volvo’s hood. At the last moment, you find your footing and catch yourself before losing your dignity and having to explain the accident so the car’s owner can make an insurance claim.
You leave something in the microwave at work and forget about it–when you remember, you walk in right as it pings! Done!
You go to Salon.com and K Chronicles is gone. No, wait, that sucks.
Your iPod dies of natural causes — a week before your extended warranty expires. New replacement, free! Yes!
Halfway through your afghan, you run out of yarn. You order more on the internet…and it matches!
You stop at a bookstore on a whim … (Yes, a brick and mortar bookstore. They do still have those.)
… and they’ve got one copy of a book you forgot you were looking for!
Your digital clock is blinking 12:00 ‘cuz there was a power outage, and when you go to reset it, the time is actually 12:00! Done! (happened to me today)
There’s a really annoying fly buzzing around the house and you open the door and it goes out!
Had a victory just now!
Your wife sends you down to get the oven mitts out of the dryer, and they’re BOTH sitting right on top of the load!
my victory
the rock song I wanted (marilyn manson song in my case) but couldn’t get cus its got a TON of swear words in it is marked clean on itunes so my parents will never know.
The cab to the airport is 1/2-hour late…but so is your flight!
You’re cruising along above the speed limit. As soon as you pass that cop in the median, he turns on the lights and siren and swings out into your lane. Crap! Then he passes you and keeps on going to pull over some other poor sucker. Yes!
Cops come to your house when you have a warrant….Just to ask you questions about a fight that happened next door….YES!!!!
You buy a new pair of shoes…and they’re comfortable without a break-in period!
you absent mindedly push the wrong button on the vending machine, and it tells you to make another selection!
Edit: you push the wrong button and it’s for an empty row…
Having your hard drive go bad and finding out you still have a week left on your warranty…
Errands prevent you from actually eating on your lunch break – but your company cafeteria is giving away free leftover sandwiches!
Your car is extremly low on fuel and the price on the petrol station goes down 3ct the moment you really, really have to re-fill (you actually see the the price change) – “Oiso I find’ des super!!!” as we say in Bavaria!
You drive by dozens of highway exits looking for one with a Starbucks, and finally pull off to go to the Dunkin Donuts instead, and directly ahead of the exit ramp is an unadvertised Starbucks!
The song you are listening to in the car ends just as you arrive at your destination…YES!
JUST before your door closes and locks, you remember your keys are still on your desk, and manage to stop the door before you’re locked out.
You replace your worn-out windshield wipers one day after a long dry spell, just cause it’s convenient, and the next day it rains. :)
On the return flights home yesterday there was only one empty seat on the aircraft for both legs. Both times it was next to me!
Going to put up your holiday wreath on the front door and finding the nail from last year!
the battery on the bathroom scale goes out…,
the day before Thanksgiving!
You go to the store to buy a set of replacement buttons because there is one button missing on your coat—-and find one button that exactly matches.
PS the coat was free…
You’re walking down the street eating a hamburger and stop for a moment to get another one out of the bag when right in front of you a safe crashes into the sidewalk!
When the cheaper drugstore cosmetic works better than the expensive department store brand. In your face, Estee Lauder!
You’re digging through a box of your stuff from high school or college, and you find the CD case of an album that somehow never made it onto your hard drive. You pick up the case, totally not expecting the CD to be inside when HOLYCRAPIT’SACTUALLYINTHERE! Victory!
You’re running late for an appointment and every signal light you pass turns green just as you drive up. You end up on time. YES!
You are loading a bunch of awkward, heavy objects into a van. After packing everything in, the door still closes! Bonus: it is packed such that nothing will fall out on your foot when you open the doors at the other end.
You’ve put of shopping till the only things you have to eat for dinner are mustard and PBR and the neighbors end up inviting you to their barbeque
I was grumbling about getting dollar coins as return change from the car wash. Until I discovered that the vending machines at work accept them. Yes!
Your favorite pen runs out of ink – but you realize – that means that you managed NOT to lose the pen so many times that you actually used all the ink! Yes!
You have to spend $40 in order to use your 25% off coupon and your total comes to $40.25!
You’re staying an expensive hotel with equally expensive in-room wifi, but you realize your room is on a low enough floor to tap into the FREE lobby wifi!
Wandering thunderstorms smite the area, and your power starts blinking… 15 minutes before you would have started installing the new OS version on your computer! (I *have* a UPS, but that only gives just enough time to shut down….)
Life’s little act of courage: Being the only man in an aerobics class. Life’s little victory: Being worshiped for knowing how to cook and clean. :)
A LIFES TINY TRAGEDY-
You pull out of the car wash-
only to have a bird poop on it.
oh wait, i forgot im broke.