Life’s Little Victories
Life’s Little Victories are the tiny little daily occurances that we should take a moment to celebrate. I suggest a fist or two in the air, and shouting “YES!!”
What began as a one-shot strip has blossomed into a regular reader favorite.
Send us 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!
Own your very own Victory!
For just $250, Keef will draw YOUR Little Victory, sign it, and send it out to you, suitable for framing. Please run the Victory by Keef before you order…he reserves the right to reject freaky victories!!
#(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!