We are all familiar with the dreaded Murphy’s Law…”Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Those are dreaded words that we all know are not necessarily true, but nevertheless, we subconsciously fear them.  I thought this would be a fun subject to laugh at this week. So here are my practical applications of Murphy’s Law.

1. If you are choosing a checkout line from any number of open lines, you WILL choose the slowest one.
2. If there is a moped on the highway it will always be in the lane ahead of you.
3. When you carry your umbrella or raincoat to work, it won’t rain. If you forget your rain gear, it will monsoon.
4. If you are a teacher, you will inevitably get the “stomach bug” over the weekend or a holiday.
5. Another for teachers….a 10% chance of rain means that it will rain only during your recess time or at afternoon parent pick up duty.
6. When you finally purchase something you’ve been debating about for awhile, it will go on sale a few days later, causing you some extra steps to get the low-price guarantee.
7. All quick trips into the bank will take an average of 20 minutes longer than you anticipated.
8. Any time you get excited about cooking a special meal, you will be missing one key ingredient!
9. When you say something stupid, it will always be in front of someone who is extremely important to you.
10. Friends will always drop by on the day you decide NOT to vacuum.

I think y’all get the idea here, so I’ll stop right there. Now, I’m not really a negative person, so I don’t totally buy into Murphy’s Law. Let me give you a new law that I’d like to call Vicki’s Law. “Stuff will always go wrong, but you will decide never to over-react so that you can have MORE JOY and less stress!”