Breaking Murphy's Law

The answer: YOU CAN'T!!

You would think as often as I have been using a hammer these last few week I would learn how not to hit my thumb. Well, I do an okay job of it and I have mentioned in a previous post about how I had a mishap in church with a hammer.

Today I was nailing Soffit into the bottom of a bay window juncture. If you don't know what soffit is, don't worry about it. It's aluminum sheeting of some sort. The important detail is the tiny nail with a tiny nail head I have to use to secure these things. Luckily Nelson left cause I wouldn't want him to question my... salvation or something because of the words I used (loudly, mind you) when I smashed my thumb with a nail. It is bruised now. I wondered if the Amish fellahs heard me. I should have said "flacon de mais*" cause it does the same thing only has less harsher meaning. I guess...

Here's where Murphy's law comes in. I think there is an addendum to the law that states "If you injure yourself, it is guaranteed that injury will keep coming into contact with solid objects at a high speed or vice versa." I must've hit my thumb ten more times since then. Not only that, as I was walking, I rammed my thumb into the claw part of my hammer. Tell me, how often does that happen? I have not experienced that since I've been using the loop in my carpenter's pants for the hammer like it should be. I tell ya!

Now the areas around my thumb (spec. index finger) come into contact with something that harms it. I came home for lunch (still home as I write) and open the cupboard door for a glass. Wouldn't you know it my finger got stuck begind the handle and twisted it. Makes me mad! Anyhow, enough ranting for now. These things add character I know. This is more about the only law I know of that cannot be broken.

* flacon de mais is french for "corn flakes". So if you ever get mad, yell "flacon de mais" and people will think, "Oh, this guy is mad mad mad!" But really, you're just saying "Corn flakes!" Doesn't work so well in english.