Why oh why......

kittylester

does the dishwasher break when you have a houseful of people to whom you have just served a large lunch involving lots of pans and dishes.

This is what is known in Scotland as McPherson's Law.

McPherson's Law states: McPherson's piece aye lands jeely-side doon.

For those of you who do not speak Doric Scots this means:
McPherson's bread and jam always lands (when it falls) jammy-side downwards,

Other examples from my personal experience include
The cat is always bitten by a rat and the bite turns septic on a public holiday or on the day before one AFTER the vet has gone of duty.

Likewise any member of the household is likely to be afflicted with a gum-boil or an infected root cavity on public holidays or the eves thereof, when you cannot get hold of a dentist.

The printer breaks down completely and the server is off-line when you have some important document to send ASAP.

kittylester: I do sympathise. I once had the sink drain block completely when I was supposed to be serving breakfast and washing up for 200 hotel guests.

I finished up washing up in a basin placed on a narrow window-sill while the hotel manager and a plumber took up most of the kitchen floor space in their united efforts to unblock the drain.

Aargh! I feel your pain.
Reminds me of one Christmas day phoning 111 and driving DD to the NHS24 hub to sit and wait for hours to have a huge swelling on her leg burst by the only GP .
I had to drive as I was the only one who hadn't been drinking....yet.
I am still grateful to that doctor.

Oh I know exactly what you mean! My work laptop would announce a massive update just when I was planning on running the payroll.

My washer went on strike when I had family here

We were all due at my sister's and brother-in-law's one Christmas until she went to warm some mincepies in the oven and discovered it was no longer working. The turkey and my sister and family made a round trip on the M25 to us on Christmas day!

Because it can.
Perhaps it had a cunning plan to bring a group of people into the kitchen to chatter together while they wash and dry the dishes for you leaving you, the host to pop them away while someone else sorts the coffee out. No? But its a lovely thought isn't it

New Years Day, the joint is in the oven, family of six expected, when the men from the gas board are there and the gas has been cut off because there is a leak in the pipe under the road outside.
We just had to change plans, cut up the meat and had a barbecue. Luckily we had a big garden and we made a big fire, the children loved it.

Romola

New Years Day, the joint is in the oven, family of six expected, when the men from the gas board are there and the gas has been cut off because there is a leak in the pipe under the road outside.
We just had to change plans, cut up the meat and had a barbecue. Luckily we had a big garden and we made a big fire, the children loved it.

That sounds like much more fun Romola.

I would hate our dishwasher to break down at any time, but a part of me looks back with nostalgia to when washing up was a social event, with one family member at the sink and the others, including guests, with a tea towel each.

Ah, the good old days (all days, when old, are good)!

My electric meter broke down at 8.30 am on Christmas Day. Very lucky we had no guests but instead no heating, oven, fridge freezer no light from 4.pm for two days. Not even a cup of tea!

Sod's law.

Is there an opposite to sods law? One about actually, most of the time, clean water comes out of the taps, kettles boil, the roof stays on the house, the dishwasher does work.......and more. Any suggestions for a name for things going ok whether we notice or not? I do understand the frustration when something does go wrong, but it would be good to have a phrase for when good things happen and go on happening.