Ever Have One Of Those Days?

by Zona

Murphy's Law..anything that can go wrong..will go wrong. That's what it seemed like to me on Friday anyway. It all started when Mr. Z went out to turn on the pool motor. Electric bills can be huge here in the summer..so we save about $75 a month by turning the pool off during the day. When Mr. Z went out to flip that ol' switch, there was a whir...and then nothing. He tried again.."whir-stop"..then again.."whirwhir-stop"....nope..the motor had bitten the dust. We both just sighed. A rebuilt pool motor is about $150. A new one is $250. Either way, it's an expense we don't need after a summer of big power bills and having to repair the air conditioner twice. But whatcha gonna do? So off he went to get the motor at the pool store. While he was gone, my sister called. Could Mr Z come over and check out her circuit breakers because half of her house is without electricity. I said sure. As soon as he comes home I'd let him know. He walked in about fifteen minutes later. I told him about my sister and he grabbed the toolbox and headed right over there. He only got a few houses down the street...when ba-domp..ba-domp..ba-domp..he discovered that he had a flat tire. Actually two flat tires. On one the tread had separated from the tire completely, the other had a leak and would have to be replaced, but could still be driven on. He put the donut spare on and hobbled over to Walmart to get two new tires. An hour later he was at my sister's house. He checked all the breakers and noticed one was tripped and he couldn't untrip it. He removed it and headed out to the hardware store to get a new one. After going to three stores, he finally found the breaker he needed, came back and installed it, flipped the switch, and now everything works fine. What a day!! But in the end, instead of getting angry at the situation, we all looked at it this way: Mr Z thinks that the drive over the railroad tracks to the pool store was the last straw for tires that were just about ready to go and it was better that they went flat on our street than having them blow out on the freeway when he was on his way to work on Saturday morning. The faulty breaker could have caused a fire, so although it was inconvenient to have to run around looking for parts in 110 degree heat, at least the problem was corrected before something really bad happened. Maybe in this case Murphy's Law was a good thing. Sometimes these things happen for a reason, even if at the time it's all a great big fat frickin' pain in the ass!!