Tuesday Mar 06, 2007

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Definition of Murphy's Law-

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Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture that most likely originated at Edwards Air Force Base in 1948. The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time," or, "Anything that can go wrong, will," or even, "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"). However, this interpretation has given rise to confusion with Sod's law and Finagle's law.

Per the 1948 theory, in American culture the law was named somewhat sarcastically[1][2] by Stapp's Team working on Project MX981 at Edwards Air Force Base after Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer contributing support measurement technology for a brief time on rocket sled experiments done by the United States Air Force in 1948 with inveterate adage collector and the law's undoubted popularizer Doctor/Colonel John Paul Stapp, a former next-door neighbor and friend of Murphy.
History of Murphy's Law
History of Murphy's Law

The most detailed examination of the origins of the Law is the book A History of Murphy's Law[citation needed] by author Nick T. Spark. Spark concludes that differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who exactly coined the phrase. The law supposedly stems from an attempt to use new measurement devices developed by the eponymous Edward Murphy, and was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later, the first ever (of many) given by Colonel Stapp, The fastest man on earth.




Last Friday I woke up very sick, puke
looked @ the clock(6:25am) and thought,"i'm gonna call in sick today for work."
Well I didn't,
I went into work(I run a warehouse that supplies 5 local schools with all their bulk lunch supplies for the week,then deliver it in a box truck.)
The day started out with a 2 hour delay due to freezing rain.
Later I couldn't get the chain link fence gate open to get the truck out,got some people to help me and still couldn't get it open.it was frozen shut.I ended up using the gate on the other side of the building and driving around.
I then loaded 2 wooden pallets full of food and with a forklift,put them onto the truck that I was set to bring to the elementary school for their delivery.As I was leaving the phone rang,it was the middle school asking if I could drop something off on the way,sure,no problem.
Drove to the middle school,dropped off what they needed and then got into the truck,turned the key and... nothing.The battery was dead,found someone to jump the battery but it still wouldn't start.
Great! I have this order sitting in the back and I'm stranded.Managed to get a ride back to the warehouse and got a smaller,maintenance van,drove it to the middle school,backed it up to the box truck and unloaded the shipment by hand,then reloaded the van with it.Drove the van to the elem.school,backed it up to the loading dock(its about a foot lower than the box truck but i'd manage.)
The elementary school is the biggest pain in the ass cuz you have to go down a hallway to a sevice elevator that takes you downstairs to the kitchen(its in the basement)The elevator is key operated so that you don't have 7 year olds taking joy rides on it.Well,I get out my key,put it in the key hole,turn it and...nothing! The elevator is dead.WTF!!!So I'm thinking,maybe someone has it downstairs with the emerg.stop button pushed in,I turn and rush to the stairs,when my wet boots hit the top step,my feet come out from under me and I fall down the stairs ass first. blackeyed I pick myself up,make sure no one saw that and limp to the elevator only to find out It is not stopped on the first floor,its broke!
So I now have to carry this whole order down two flights of stairs by hand,instead of using the hand truck/dolly.It sucked! Plus my leg was killing me.
I finished the load-in,drove back to the warehouse,had the box truck towed to a garage,left work early,went home and crawled into bed.Slept a couple hours then got up to go work a bar-backing job at a party at Colgate University that I promised to do the week prior.I took some advil and was fine.After the party finished (around 1am)I was driving home on a back road(Colgate U is in the middle of nowhere about 25 minutes from where I live)I was approaching a stop sign,hit my breaks, my car spun and went front first into a ditch/snow bank,(the roads were covered in black ice.)Great! I tried getting it out but its in there good.So now I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere.Thank god my cell phone gets a signal,so I call AAA,they say that it'l be somewhere between an hour to an hour and a half before anyone can get out there to tow my car out.So I wait,a little while later a car with 2 kids in it drives by,slides to stop and offer to help,no luck,still stuck,I thank them and they leave.I get back in my car and wait.Sometime later I see an S.U.V. approaching,its heading right for my car which is still stickin out in the road at an angle,it doesn't look like they are gonna be able to stop in time so I open the car door and jump out.POOF!!! I land in the ditch up to my arm pits in snow.The S.U.V. misses my car and skids to a halt,three guys jump out and are like,"dude,you alright?"Here's my car stickin out in the road,door open and i'm up to my shoulders in a ditch full of snow frown
Then on of the guys says,"Chopper is that you?" blush Man,I felt like an idiot.Come to find out its some regulars from the bar I work at in the summer months,which I may add is nowhere near where I am now,what are the odds?So they ask if I want a push out,I say its not gonna work,had tried that.One of the guys,who may have been a little intoxicated says,"man,I can bench press a 1000lbs"lol,
yeah okay,
but no shit,we got it out,
so I called AAA,told them not to bother,thanked the guys and drove home,was almost there and a rabbit ran out infront of my car and ...thump! I ran it over. skull
Great! Iceing on the fucking cake!


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Saturday I didn't leave my house!

ARRR!!!

iso:
Geesh. Thats one helluva day. blackeyed
I don't blame you for not leaving your house on saturday..i wouldn't have either. in fact, i probably would have stayed inside all weekend
jbusy:
Man, that's awful.
Snow makes every bad situation that much worse.

I must say I enjoyed your sound effects though.

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