MURPHY'S LAW ---AGAIN

MURPHY’S LAW AGAIN----

 

You might recall several years ago, there was a thing going around called ‘Murphy’s law’. It basically said that ‘if it could go wrong, it would’.

So, here are some of my observations to be considered in this day and age.

In the army I was always told to ‘pee before you have go’. This is a great suggestion especially if you are in a long line somewhere. You are at the doctor’s office for your appointment, or you are at a restaurant waiting for your name to be called for your table. I guarantee you that if you leave the area to go to the bathroom, your name will be called. Then you come back to find that you lost your place in line and have to sit there again for another hour or so.

Same thing, if you are waiting for a very important phone call. One that you have been waiting on for weeks or months. I can bet that if you walk away from your phone to go to the bathroom, no matter how close it is to where your phone is, your call will come through and go into voice mail. That’s Murphy’s law in action.

Hang in here with me, now you are in the grocery store, you pick the shortest line with only 2 people in front of you. You should be out in no time at all, right?

Wrong, the first guy has to have 3 price check made on items without any barcodes or stickers. You try to back up and go to another check out area, but there are now 3 people behind you and you are blocked in.

The price check guy gets finished and is gone and you think you have it made but wait not yet. This clown has 47 coupons some are expired, and some are for items he hasn’t bought. So now you are a witness to a verbal confrontation between the clerk and the customer for 1 of his discounts of 27 cents for a jar of peanut butter. You are getting older by the minute.

Your next trial is the post office, always a good place to see if you really have any patience. Again, you pick the shortest line, but this guy wants to see all the special edition bird stamps that have been printed. He has no other place to go and wants to discuss his sighting of a yellow-bellied booby that he saw this week and is there a stamp for his new bird?

My final examples for this week are simple. If you are driving somewhere and you are early, all the traffic light will be green and there will be little or no traffic. Also, when you get a text that you need to read and need to have the lights turn red so you can see what it says. You can make book that none of the lights will cooperate.

Conversely, if you are running late to the airport, the doctor’s office or to a meeting, you can bet all the traffic lights will be red and the schools will have dismissed classes early during the exact time you need to be on the streets. To prevent you from making a call to alert someone you are going to be late, you will enter an dead zone where cell phones do not work for some mysterious reason or another. You agree with me or not?

See you next week….Peary Perry