The Thwartation of Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s law is technically: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But there’s more to this expression than things going wrong. We use the expression when there’s a twisted-up-frustrating-choice-regretting component to the situation.
Like a rainy summer vacation after several sunny weeks of working indoors. Or you let the person with the crying child in front of you in line at the ice cream counter and they run out of your favorite flavor just as you get to the window.
My family moved into our new house end of May- early June. Our downstairs AC broke in early July. Even though the heat was (to this New Englander) unbearable, downstairs stayed relatively cool and dry. Still, if you move around a lot in 78-80 degrees, you’ll get sweaty and in my case, cranky. I would not have been a good sport about unpacking and organizing and moving furniture in those conditions in my new house with central AC.
But here I am, hollering into the universe that Murphy’s Law has been thwarted! Because when the AC broke I had already unpacked 90% of the first floor stuff, and had moved on to the upper two floors.
Where the AC is working deliciously.
My dog and I will continue to organize the room we’re in very slowly. Well, I’ll organize. She’ll nap on the couch.
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