April 2002

Have you ever noticed that the law of gravity and Murphy's Law always come hand in hand?
Not so long ago I got proof of it twice the same day.
In the mornings when I woke up I went down to make myself cerials for breakfast. I always like to have it sweet, so when I'm boiling the milk and it's almost hot I add some sugar to it.
I usually am too lazy to use a spoon to put sugar in the cerials, so I pour it straight from the pot. I've done it like that for as long as I can remember, even when I was still living with my parents. And nothing ever went wrong with doing it like that.
The situation now occurs that I had just refilled the pot with sugar. Everything was a tiny bit heavier than usual and ofcourse when I poured nothing happened. So I tipped over the pot a tiny bit further... still nothing happens. And still a tiny bit further... and just at that time gravitation starts pulling on the sugar in the pot and it pulls pretty much two thirds of the whole pot into my cerials.
So here goes gravitation with Murphy's Law: if gravitation pulls something down, it ALWAYS pulls more down than you want to be pulled down.
Well anyway... I had my cerials sweet at least :o)

Then that very same day in the evenings I was making dinner for me and Anna (yep, I actually cook occassionally *g*), and the dish I was making needed some oregano to spice it up.
Usually you don't need all that much of it, at least I don't, and there wasn't all that much left in the bottle anymore anyway (I thought), but they put the oregano here in these really sneaky bottles. So I turned the bottle to pour in some oregano, but nothing happened. Even if I was so sure that there was still enough in the bottle for my needs. So I turned the bottle a bit more, and there was actually raining some oregano in the pan. But not enough... So I turned the bottle a tiny bit more and tapped on the back (how stupid can you be *g*) and WHOOOSH. It appeared that with using the oregano all the other times, a lot of it had collected on the inside under the lid and it got out when I tapped on the back.
Enjoy your dinner! But beware, it's spicy!

We have this saying in Holland: Een ezel stoot zich in 't gemeen, niet twee keer aan dezelfde steen, which means as much as "A donkey doesn't hit itself twice on the same stone".
I guess I'm not a donkey... ;o)