"i think you have used all of your luck today."

Yesterday, after eight days in New York and two days in my new apartment, I lived through my worst nightmare. Key words being "lived through". In the morning I discovered that I could slide open my window screen. Neat, I thought. Then, after a day out and about I came home to an exceedingly humid room, the window was open but the window screen was down. So, I did what I had done in the morning, I slid it open. Except that the entire thing unhooked and flung off. From the 15th floor. My first instinct was to jump after it. My second was; "that will hurt". So there I was, helpless, staring at the window screen making its way to the ground. I saw pedestrians passing by on the sidewalk below. I thought, "Please, please, please don't hit anyone". The wind grabbed a hold of it and it looked like it was gonna crash down on one of the cars parked along the street. Nope. It took another direction, back toward the building. The outer window sill of a first floor window dampened the fall before it hit the ground. As this happened I shouted at the top of my voice: "WATCH OOOOOOOOUUUUUUT!!!!!!!!!!!" The bush next to the building entrance further dampened the fall before it hit the concrete.

Now picture my head out this window looking really, REALLY scared:

The damn window screen.

View is still good though. And no casualties. All in all, a good day. Pheew.

No one was hurt and I'd like to thank my lucky star, baby Jesus and the Easter Bunny for that. I'm never touching that window screen again, I would rather sweat than kill someone.

Sergio, my landlord, said he thought I had used all of my luck that day.
I agreed.
That's why I didn't leave my room for the rest of the evening.