Albert King – "Born Under a Bad Sign" (1967)

Born under a bad sign

Been down since I began to crawl

You think you had a bad day?  Wait until you hear about my day . . .

This morning, I got up early and made my weekly pilgrimage to the local farmers’ market.  (So far, so good.)

When I returned to the 2 or 3 Lines World Headquarters Building, I parked on the second level of the parking garage and took the elevator to our 16th-floor C-suite offices.

But moments after I got there, I realized that I had left my cell phone in my car.

So it was back to the elevator for a ride back down to the parking garage.

Once I got there, I remembered that I had left my car key back in the office – so it was back to the elevator for another ride up to the 16th floor.

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I got my car key, rode the elevator back down to the second floor, and retrieved my phone.

As I was walking back to the elevator for the ride back up to my office, it hit me that I had forgotten to go feed the family cat – which I had intended to do on my way back from the farmers’ market.  (The cat is temporarily under my care while the person with whom I formerly shared living quarters is on vacation.)  

I got in the car and started the engine, but then I remembered that I hadn’t locked my office door.  (When I left my office, I thought I was just going to make a quick trip down to my car to grab my phone and then immediately head back up – so I didn’t lock the door.)   

That meant it was back to the elevator for a ride up to 16 to lock my door, followed by a ride back down to the parking garage, followed by the short drive to my former home to check up on my cat.

Who had pooped upstairs and thrown up downstairs.   

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“Born Under a Bad Sign” was originally recorded by Albert King in 1967 and then covered by Cream the next year.

Click here to listen to Albert King’s recording of “Born Under a Bad Sign.”

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