Do you ever wish that the laws of physics would give it a rest for just a second?!1

[UTUSN]

I don't know what to call them, laws of physics, laws of nature. "Natural Law" sounds a tad freeperish.


What I mean is something like:

* You're going about a chore, something you do a million times. You do it almost automatically. You're totally programmed to throw things in a trash can. On trash truck day, you remove it all in the liner/bag rushing out to put it outside, then come back in and forget to put in the new bag and do something that results in something to throw into the trash and you go to do that but there's NO bag, so you have to stop and put in the bag.

* There's a kitchen rack right around the corner of the door. You are a certain height and wear a certain size shirt, so more often than not the short sleeves are about the same length, and your path through this door turns right past a protrusion of the rack and the sleeve get hooked while you're rushing past. This happens a lot. For goodness' sake! Could this rule be relaxed just this once?!1

* The garden hose or the electrical cord or whatever lie on the ground according to certain loops and tangles. Invariably you trip up. Can it stop, just for a second?!1



I realize that any kind of suspension would be unnerving, or who knows, a mindbending good trip?!1

[krispos42]

1. Every time I drop something breakable

I have that flash of time where I come to the complete and total realization that:

a) I just made a dumbass mistake

b) that item WILL crash down on a hard surface

c) the breakage WILL sound almost exactly how I expect it to sound

and d) there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'll be able to stop it, slow it down, or divert it.

[MrScorpio]

2. If you give it a rest, it'll stay at rest

However, if you're in motion, you may have to cease being in motion whenever something else comes up. Like, I dunno, taking a nap or something.

This is until the SO presses upon the need for you to get up off your lazy ass.

On another subject, I'm jonesin' for some Fig Newtons right about now.

[Orrex]

3. When dragging an extension cord through the house...

the three-millimeter "lip" between the cord itself and the plug-end will get caught on every edge and protrusion in the room, no matter how small or unlikely. If possible, the cord will wedge itself under a door or the corner of an appliance in a way that simply can't be moved by flapping the cord, such that you need to stop, go back, and free the cord by hand.

Damn you, universe! Damn you!

[UTUSN]

4. Thanks, everybody in the thread: You GET me!1 You really GET me!1 n/t

[Phentex]

5. I often hang clothes on the outer shower door railing...

I take them in there so I can dress in there and the steam can remove any wrinkles from the clothes. They are hung so that the hangers stick out at exactly the height of the most sensitive place on my arms. Invariably, I leave the empty hangers there and the next time I enter the bathroom, I walk into them and bump the sensitive part of my arm. I will do this three or four times before I remember to take them off the rail and return them to the closet. As I do this, I remind myself to place the clothes on the towel bar instead of the shower door...

repeat....repeat...repeat...


:banghead:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I'm sick of garden hoses and power cords always wedging under one of the car's tires.