If anything can go wrong, it will.
~Murphy’s Law
It’s a crazy crazy world. Murphy was right. If anything can go wrong, it most certainly will
Situation: Tomorrow is a killer day at work. You plan to have an early night and get some rest.
• Your friend calls up. He’s in town just for the night. He invites you to see a movie that you’ve been dying to watch. How can you refuse!
• The movie finishes early. “What? It’s barely 10 a.m.! Let’s get a couple of beers, catch a bite.” (How do you explain the funda of wanting to go to bed early?)
• You pick up a couple of beers. Join some more friends. Good fun. Keep looking at the watch. 10:30 p.m., 11p.m., 11:30 p.m. …….
• “Hey guy, sorry to break up the party. I need to go home. A tough day at work tomorrow.”
• No one has a problem. So far so good. “So, who’s dropping me home?”
• No one volunteers. Why? Reason: “Can’t break the law, can’t drive with alcohol in my belly.”
• What? 4.8% alcohol content and that too only two glasses of beer!
• You settle back into the couch. Nobody’s moving. Keep looking at the time. 11:45 p.m., 12 a.m., 12:30 a.m……
• “Guys, I really need to go home.” No one pays you any attention.
• “Guys.” This time you are firmer and your screech is loud enough to break the neighbor’s wine glasses.
• “Ok. Ok, give us 5 minutes.”
• Finally, you leave at 1:37 a.m.
• All that excitement leaves you wide awake. You finally sleep in the early hours of dawn.
• The alarm doesn’t work. You wake up late.
• Reach office huffing and puffing. You have missed 9 client calls.
• Then it gets even better. None of your colleagues turn up for work. It’s all a conspiracy. Now you end up doing their work too.
• In the midst of 7 of your clients and 5 of your colleagues’ clients (It’s a wonder that you’re still alive!), your fingers typing a quotation as you explain the concept note of a project to a client on the phone (Yes, it is confusing!), your director walks in beaming.
• And he informs you, as if he’s bestowing on you the honour of the century, that the company has acquired a new client. And guess who’s going to be the lucky one handling it? Yeah! You!
~Murphy’s Law
It’s a crazy crazy world. Murphy was right. If anything can go wrong, it most certainly will
Situation: Tomorrow is a killer day at work. You plan to have an early night and get some rest.
• Your friend calls up. He’s in town just for the night. He invites you to see a movie that you’ve been dying to watch. How can you refuse!
• The movie finishes early. “What? It’s barely 10 a.m.! Let’s get a couple of beers, catch a bite.” (How do you explain the funda of wanting to go to bed early?)
• You pick up a couple of beers. Join some more friends. Good fun. Keep looking at the watch. 10:30 p.m., 11p.m., 11:30 p.m. …….
• “Hey guy, sorry to break up the party. I need to go home. A tough day at work tomorrow.”
• No one has a problem. So far so good. “So, who’s dropping me home?”
• No one volunteers. Why? Reason: “Can’t break the law, can’t drive with alcohol in my belly.”
• What? 4.8% alcohol content and that too only two glasses of beer!
• You settle back into the couch. Nobody’s moving. Keep looking at the time. 11:45 p.m., 12 a.m., 12:30 a.m……
• “Guys, I really need to go home.” No one pays you any attention.
• “Guys.” This time you are firmer and your screech is loud enough to break the neighbor’s wine glasses.
• “Ok. Ok, give us 5 minutes.”
• Finally, you leave at 1:37 a.m.
• All that excitement leaves you wide awake. You finally sleep in the early hours of dawn.
• The alarm doesn’t work. You wake up late.
• Reach office huffing and puffing. You have missed 9 client calls.
• Then it gets even better. None of your colleagues turn up for work. It’s all a conspiracy. Now you end up doing their work too.
• In the midst of 7 of your clients and 5 of your colleagues’ clients (It’s a wonder that you’re still alive!), your fingers typing a quotation as you explain the concept note of a project to a client on the phone (Yes, it is confusing!), your director walks in beaming.
• And he informs you, as if he’s bestowing on you the honour of the century, that the company has acquired a new client. And guess who’s going to be the lucky one handling it? Yeah! You!
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