No need to get a degree in law or physics, right? Everyone knows good old uncle Murphy's law - anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Murhpy's law, otherwise known as the fourth law of thermodynamics or the law of meanness (from Russian - закон подлости) actually works. If you are late and urgently looking for parking lot, then you won't find any, you will circle around and around and around until at last moment when someone pulls out and you get that smug smile, someone else will beat you in a matter of a second. If you bought that pretty, expensive bag that you were yearning since the start of a new season, the next day, it will be on 50% sale. If you are on a duty at lunch time, you will get cover before and after lunch (teachers would understand me). If you plan a house renovation instead of a trip during your holidays and the workers just don't turn in. If you just challenged yourself that you will never ever buy any candy and chocolates and sweets, someone will knock on your door with these sweets and say hi. And when you decided to sleep at 11 each evening, forget, it will never happen. And sometimes, when you want to say something witty that turns into something foolishly Bridgetish. And your phone will be dead just before you realized that you didn't text home, and the family already decided you've been kidnapped by a maniac. And the weather will go wrong just when the heating system is turned off. And it will always rain if you don't take an umbrella. Sunny, when you forgot your sunglasses, overcast when you didn't. You will get those extra kilograms just before the graduation when you've planned to fit into that nice little green dress.
But I tell you this, with so many obsessions and compulsions, Murphy won't trip me up. I make sure to check the door is locked thrice, and I carry umbrellas just to force the sun out behind the clouds and so it goes. :)
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