Driving home from dinner, my dad unexpectedly stopped to run an errand he'd previously stated would be handled tomorrow. The reason he gave was that, per Murphy's Law, something might come up tomorrow, but 'nothing can happen tonight.' We were pulling in. I mentioned that a meteor could fall from the sky in the next few seconds: to me, rhetorical hyperbole is a challenge to reality. I was met with 'well aren't you just a ray of sunshine?'
Well, folks, turns out I am not, in fact, a ray of sunshine. In addition to all my previous posts where I mention enjoying clouds and rain, I'm just not a sunny, bright person. That part of me is dead, so to speak. But something bad could always just happen when you least expect it. I know this better than most. It's the definition of Murphy's Law, really, I'm just pushing it to the comical extreme.
I don't even see why it's so dark of me to bring up freak meteor strikes. If something's falling big enough to damage anything, it'll be all over the news before it hits. Plus, don't we have, like, a system of satellite lasers or something to shoot anything like that out of the sky? Plus, if a meteor did drop from nowhere and kill the whole minivanful of us, it would really simplify our lives and eliminate all our day-to-day worries.
OK, maybe I am a bit darker than most in the humor department. I'm just a snarky little raincloud. At least I amuse myself, even if the joke doesn't exactly 'land' on my audience, pun intended.
when I skip reading your blog (too depressed to remember until I'm 8 posts behind), I always missed something.
ReplyDeleteyeah, like a friend casually says to me "Things are this bad, it's gotta get better, because it can't get any worse" and I said "Things can ALWAYS get worse." (dead silence) then my finale "It can, and happens all the time."
she says "well, I was trying to be positive".
me: "I'm positive too. about That."
your friend,
B. from WW.
You are my hero! So true, my cat being sick reminded me that I still have more loved ones I could lose after my wife. Life can always get worse until it's over. I try to laugh about it, even though it's not really funny.
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