As the title says, tell us about times you've been screwed over by things beyond your control. It can be in-game stuff or technical stuff, as my example is:

When I was playing Suikoden III I spent many enjoyable hours going through it, collecting and training my Stars and so on, and then I got to the final dungeon.

And it crashed. Every single time. The disc must have been damaged. I never have finished S3, the only one I've not seen through to the end.