Wednesday, October 1, 2003

#44...Robert Fulghum on Murphy's Law

      "Murphy's law does not always hold true.  Ever once in a while the fundamental laws of the universe seem to be suspended, and not only does everything go right, nothing seems to be able to keep it from going right.  It's not always something as dramatic as the long-bomb or the slam-dunk that wins ball games. 

Ever drop a glass and have it bounce nine times and not even chip?  Ever come from work to find your lights have been on all day and your battery is dead, but you parked your car on a hill and you let your old hoopy roll and it fires the first time, you pop the clutch and off you roar with a big heart?  Ever pull out that drawer in your desk, that has a ten year accumulation of junk in it - pull it too far, and just as it's about to vomit its contents all over your room, you get a knee under it and stagger back hopping on one foot doing a balancing act like the great Zucchini and you don't lose it?   

A near miss at an intersection; the glass of knocked over milk that waltzes across the table but doesn't spill; the deposit that beat your rubber check to the bank because there was a holiday you forgot about; the lump in your breast that turned out to be benign; the heart attack that turned out to be gas; picking the right lane for once in a traffic jam; opening the door of your car with a coat hanger through the wing window on the first try. And on & on & on."

           

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or .... what about those guardian angels we don't give the proper credit to for their good deeds? Can't you imagene those jovial, impish angels thumbing their noses at crabby Mr. Murphy when things do go right?

Anonymous said...

okay, so last nite, my guardian angel was sleeping on the job. the lid from the cranberry sauce landed sticky side down...dammit.

Anonymous said...

Yep ... They were sleeping on the job.... But on the otherhand ... maybe when you shouted at them they woke up and didn't let the lid cut your fingers when you had to pick it up ...

Anonymous said...

hmmm...