BS: Sods Law

Subject: BS: Sods Law
From: nutty
Date: 23 May 03 - 04:56 PM

I HOPE YOU FOLKS DON'T MIND IF I HAVE A MOAN BUT IT MAY MAKE ME FEEL BETTER

I've never had a great amount of money in my life. I've always had to be careful and count pennies and now that I have retired from work the situation is no different.

I've learned over the years that if ever I was tempted to extravegance "Sods Law" would make me pay.

I should have known that I was tempting fate when I decided ( after much soul searching ) to splash out on a new digital camera.
I got it yesterday it's all bought and payed for ..... I couldn't wait to take pictures of the dogs so wasted no time in setting it up.

This morning I jumped into my vehicle, which was sitting on the drive and discovered that the key would no fit in the ignition .......tried the spares .....same problem ......called the Breakdown Service (at least I had Home Call) ......but no joy ....couldn't get it started.

The steering lock had jammed and the ignition was knackered. It will cost me about the same to repair as it cost to buy the digi.
Of course it's also Bank Holiday weekend so if the parts don't come by morning I'll be without the vehicle until Tuesday.

I know it's not a huge problem.
I know millions of people in the world are worse off than me
I know tomorrow it won't seem half as annoying

But what I really want to know is .......... why isn't there a law that works the opposite way to Sods Law so that the good cancels out the bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 03 - 05:32 PM

Ain't it always the way ? It's like (S)He is looking down and saying, "Don't get too cocky or I'll take you down a peg." One part of my business picked up early this year so I ordered 50 packages, one per job, a fairly large sum for me, instead of the regular 20, and went from April 30 to May 20 without one job. Thank (S)He I have other irons in the fire.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: KateG
Date: 23 May 03 - 07:45 PM

Didn't you know that cars have a special sensor that guages the amount of money you have so that they can time their breakdowns to cause the maximum amount of grief and suffering?

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Morticia
Date: 23 May 03 - 07:56 PM

I have, for one reason and another, spent five hundred quid on my car this month, just to keep it roadworthy......I sympathise.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 May 03 - 12:11 AM

"special sensor", my eye. You put your money in your wallet. Put your wallet in your back pocket. Sit in the driver's seat. The car can feel how much money you have, exactly.




So often these claims for miraculous processes can be explained by a few moments of rational analysis.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 03 - 02:14 AM

well today started out real good...got more money in my paycheck than i was expecting....a couple of hundred dollars more...

then on the way home my car overheated...and is now an hour drive away from me...then my pc died...will not turn on....so pissed.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 May 03 - 03:04 AM

nutty, I've had this happen to me before, perhaps because I live in a damp climate and have also never bought a car in the last 30 years that wasn't at least 10 years old to begin with.

I have resurrected locked or siezed ignitions by saturating them with WD40 using the little red straw that it comes with, on at least two occasions. Perhaps it will work in your case.

Maybe May is just a bad month for some of us this year. So far my cat died unexpectedly, one of our closest friends died of a massive heart attack at age 48 (non-smoker, non-drinker, superfit) and my beloved fiddle playing father-in-law passed away two weeks ago.

I started making a further list of my Woes in May, but it got a little too depressing, even for me, so I had to delete it.

Here's hoping June will be a better month for all.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 May 03 - 03:55 AM

There is an opposite law - it's the one that decrees you car/partner/house/job/finances/instrument/bodily functions will NOT explode/implode/fall off/disappear/disintegrate on a daily basis. It's happening all the time... Did your leg explode today? No? Well there you go then, perfect example of Dos's Law. Is your car running (OK we won't tempt by asking HOW it's running)? Has your dog disintegrated (moulting does not count)??

There you go. You're really having a good day, you just didn't realise it!

(By the way, if it makes you feel better, my foot is still purple round the edges, it hurts like hell, my sewing machine is buggered AGAIN, just when I'd got some commissions, I've got £200 of bills and only £100 to pay it with and I've got to repot my plants today. It can't measure up to losing dear friends or relatives, but isn't it usually the little things that annoy most?)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:42 AM

Your right Liz, it was a good day, I had to take my puppy to the vet today for a pulled groin muscle, but he didn't exolode. *LOL*

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: JennyO
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:45 AM

There I was just before Easter with two festivals to go to, no income for the next two weeks, and some money saved up for petrol and to spend at the festivals.

By the time I got to Canberra, my speedo had stopped working, and my transmission was doing funny things. Two days later and after an anxious day spent at a transmission repair place there, it was sort-of fixed (somehow the speedo cable had disintegrated and fallen into the transmission and fouled it up) and I was $400 poorer.

That put a bit of a dent in my festival spending!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Hillheader
Date: 24 May 03 - 05:32 AM

Nutty

Please don't give me the "every silver lining has a cloud" sketch.

Your car broke down in your drive. Imagine driving 50 miles or so, parking it up all day and coming back to find the problem you have now!!

But I do sympathise..

Davebhoy

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: nutty
Date: 24 May 03 - 11:57 AM

Thanks folks ..... I knew I'd feel better after a good moan .
   
Apparently the steering lock had disintegrated (mechanic said it's a common fault with older french-made vehicles). No spare parts in local scrapyards so had to buy totally new ignition system but the old one drilled out in about 5 mins so I was lucky and it didn't cost anything like as much as I expected.

I appreciated the support ...... you are all such lovely people.

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 May 03 - 11:59 AM

Are you sure you weren't trying to start someone else's car? :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 May 03 - 12:11 PM

It's a plot by the French to destabilize and ultimately destroy British society...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sods Law
From: GUEST,john c
Date: 24 May 03 - 03:49 PM

I got the best paid gig I´ve had for ages around last new year, and had to drive over this very high mountain pass and through a real blizzard to get there. Guess whose car broke down at the very highest point of the journey - and guess how much it cost to get the bloody thing repaired.......you´ve got it.......right down to the last penny!!!!