Murphy's Law

Suffice to say...it's true. One of the best examples is a simple thing called a bike ride. Seriously, all ya gotta do is grab your bike, put on a helmet, and take off. Only problem is when your cycling kit (kit is cycle lingo for clothes) is sopping wet from your ride in a thunder storm yesterday and you can't find a way to get it dry. Okay, that's not the only problem. On top of that you just replaced your tires (because they are worn out and you got a flat yesterday during the thunder storm) and your back wheel doesn't want to stay on right any more.

With your desperate array of tools (I'm on vacation and all useful tools at the cabin seem to have disappeared) you tighten your wheel into place and ride off in your soggy kit. But low and behold your tire wasn't tight enough, so you return to the cabin and tighten it again. Now you're finally off...except that your front brake loosened up during all this fixing of stuff so you have to tighten it up. Yay, off we ride!

After a couple blocks, you come to the highway, which you've gotta cross with no stop light. Once it looks clear you start to ride a cross, then your bike stops rolling right in the middle of the road. Hmm, I think the back wheel came loose AGAIN! Time to practice your bike-a-hopping as you try to get out of the way of the log truck. Safely on the other side you attempt to tighten your wheel without any tools. Magically it works, no more wheel problems.

Now it's time for your twenty mile ride in a twenty five mile an hour wind. As I'm cruising along in my top gear at twenty five miles an hour, I analyze how I'm gonna ride back. If I put it in my lowest gear I should be able to grind home into the thirty mile an hour gusts. I enjoy the feeling of riding along in what feels like the eye of a hurricane.

After I've ridden about ten miles, I decide to turn around. *SNAP* my derailleur cable just broke (that's part of the thing-a-ma-jigger that shifts gears). On top of that, as I'm pulling off to the side of the road, I'm to focused on trying to figure out what just happened and miss that there's a three inch log on the shoulder. Let's just say I and my bike tipped over rather quickly. So after inspecting it I figure out that my bike will still work...in top gear. I had the pleasure of riding home in my top gear against that twenty five mile an hour wind. So to sum it all up, without Murphy's Law life just wouldn't thrust the epic upon us...


...in other words it would be perfect.