Why is is that ...

[wellinghall]

... as soon as it gets cold, I lose both pairs of gloves?*
... the lightbulbs to blow are always the really specialised ones that you can't buy at the corner shop or supermarket?
... the day you want to leave work early, you get a phone call just as you're about to go?
... the compost you think will make a nice warm home for your seeds turns out to be a nice warm home for something else - something with a long tail?**
... the Magnus Magnusson tribute programme seems to include clips of every Mastermind champion bar one - the one you're related to?***
... the general feeling of under-the-weather-ness arrives just a few days before what will be, without a doubt, the social highlight of the year?

EDIT:
*which then turn up as soon as I've bought a new pair; oh well, at least now I've got one pair to leave at home, one pair to leave at the office, and one pair to leave on the train.
**and the Council's pest control service now charge £39.50 to deal with these things; and I'm going to have to be at home to sign for the poisons.
***although he says he caught a glimpse of himself.

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

the day you want to leave work early, you get a phone call just as you're about to go?

Oh yes I know that one and it's always someone who says 'This won't take a minute' and it never does.

Glad to hear you found your gloves again. I lost one of mine last year, went back to the shop to buy another pair, only to find they only had 1 solitary glove left. Persuaded them that I really did want to buy 1 glove, got it for half price and then found the lost one when I got home. Still, I now have a spare in case I ever loose one again

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

...thus ensuring that the glove you lose will be for the hand for which you *don't* have the spare ;-)