You have, no doubt, heard about Murphy and his observationthat things always go wrong when you least need them to. Or something like that. Well, it seems there are many other observations basedon Murphy’s Law. One of them is the Murphy Switch.

This switch is activated when you do one thing which prevents you from reacting to another. If, for example, you have been waiting for sales call on the phone it will most likely ring when you find yourself farthest from said phone.

This has happened to me often while waiting for the rent. Many people stop by the house to pay in cash or check. If the day has been particularly slow, then the only person who will come by for the day will invariably arrive just as I sit down on the toilet.

You would think that after taking most of the morning getting ready for the first monthly family barbeque I would expect soemthing bad to happen. But no, I trek through life in a happy carefree manner taken completely by surprise by the dreaded Murphy Switch every single time.

I was falling asleep at the picnic when Bryan made a comment and everything was picked up in a flash and everyone was saying good bye. I cruised into the house to cool down and eventually made my way to the shower.

Now, dear reader, I am a normal sized guy. At 350 pounds and well past six and a half feet, when I’m wet there is a lot to dry. Sure enough, I’m sitting on the corner of the bed drying my head in my birthday suit and a loud knock is rapped on the door.

It seems that while I was taking a shower, some curious cattle next door were investigating my freshly cut fence line. My neighbor has cattle, beef I think, and the fence we share has been overgrown for many many years. Recently the park started making a little profit and I called a local landscaper to clear the fence.

One spot in the fence had a lot of vines growing on it. It was also near the top of a small rise and when everything was cleared, the fence was all but gone. That’s the spot a half dozen cows found.

Now you might think that had I half a brain I would have gone next door just after the fence was cleared and told my neghbor about the bad fence. Oh you silly silly person you. No, I had a list of things to do and that one kind of fell off.

So my poor nieghbor did not find it amusing when the cattle above found the flaw in his fence. And Murphy’s Switch got the better of me. Coincidentally, I am in the need for a new garden tractor (or an old one) because my old one is in the shop for the next few weeks. So, there goes the savings I have socked away as a buffer to pay my monthly bills.

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