Gremlin Guardian Angel
There were a few days where all my appliances were breaking down. First the clothes washer, then the air conditioner, then the dishwasher.
Then one morning, before leaving for work, the refrigerator stopped cooling. I was in a terrible mood on my commute to work, and then I had a flat tire in the middle of rush hour traffic.
I pulled over to the shoulder. Normally I would have got out immediately and started changing it – I can change a tire in 5 minutes, it wouldn’t have even made me late, but everything breaking in the days leading up to this flat had me defeated.
I rested my head on the steering wheel a few seconds and said out loud “why me” when, almost as an answer, I was hit from behind.
Traffic has slowed because of my pulling over, and an ambulance driver transporting a patient between hospitals decided to go around the traffic by driving in the breakdown lane.
Damage to my vehicle was minor, but if it had been any other day I would have been taking my jack and spare out at that moment and been crushed between my car and the ambulance.
Everything worked out great. I got a 5 figure settlement from the ambulance company as they were clearly at fault hitting a car in the breakdown lane (it was a non-emergency transportation of a patient.).
And when I got home that day, all the appliances were miraculously working again. Story credit: Reddit / MarkHirsbrunner