Murphy Has a Brother
Are you wondering what Murphy is up to? The same Murphy whose law seems to affect us all at one time or another. I’m starting to think he has more siblings than we can count. I don’t remember a time when I’ve spoken to so many people that have one thing or another going wrong.
The end of September, I wrote a post, “Our Return to South Florida,” in which I recounted the less than usual events of our return. I could have sworn Murphy was just hanging around on our shoulders and that soon he’d be leaving. This was not the case.
With Christmas coming right around the corner we’ve planned to celebrate at our house and we are also preparing to put the house up for sale. Now wouldn’t it be a perfect time after 17 years for the dishwasher to decide to start leaking? A non-fixable repair, according to Mike, my serviceman husband. Thank you Murphy!
Saturday, I was looking forward to a whole day to catch up on blogging and commenting and responding to messages. I turned on my computer, went into a friend’s blog and enjoyed the delightful sound of my virus alert telling me that I had a Trojan. It was that wonderful bankerfox.a virus in conjunction with the win32/nugel.e. I did finally clear it up with a solution at Geekpolice.net , but it took me all day! Murphy struck again!
I guess I wasn’t thinking because if I was I probably would have remembered that “things happen in 3′s.” On Tuesday, I left work, came to the corner of a busy intersection where I needed to cross traffic and when I hit my brakes I heard a pssssssssssss! As my brakes were serenading me they all of a sudden became very difficult to push. Being that I’m so versed in the workings of a car, I panicked and called Mike, still sitting at the intersection and afraid to move. He offered to drive the car home for me, but I told him I’d take it slow and keep testing the brakes. I drove in the right lane anticipating jumping the curb and hitting a tree to stop if my brakes failed. I drove really slow and made it home incident free. After some inspection and a phone call to a mechanic friend, Mike found that the problem is my brake booster. It turns out that the brake booster gives more braking power with minimal pressure on the brake pedal. If the brake booster is not functioning properly, the brake pedal will be very hard to push, but you will still have brakes. Good to know! It’s also a good thing I have strong legs, but needless to say it needs to be replaced. Murphy strikes again!
It’s almost become comical waiting to see when we’ll have our next encounter with Murphy. And, I am so thankful that these problems are minimal. Our family is blessed with its health and although things are difficult we have it easy compared to others.
I’m pretty sure, though, that Murphy must have siblings that we didn’t know about. Almost everyone I speak to has one mishap or another going on. What’s funny is that people keep saying it “Murphy’s Law” that affecting us all. Another thought I wonder, is if we might be bringing negativity on ourselves because of the stress we are dealing with in regards to the state our society is in. Regardless, we trudge on with a smile getting ready to hurdle the next bump in the road.
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