Murphy's Law

Today, we are going to have a lesson on Murphy's Law. Don't know what that is? Don't worry, by the end of our lesson you will be an expert. Murphy's Law states that everything that can go wrong, will.

For this lesson, let's take, for example, a trip to Paris.

Let's say that the flight to Paris is leaving at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the travelers leave their flat at 5, to give themselves enough time. Said travelers went to the Tube station, at which they waited 45 minutes for their train to come. Turns out, someone committed suicide on the train tracks and all the trains were delayed. Consequently, these travelers arrived at their train station ( in order to take an express to the airport) and successfully got on the train. And then sat for 45 minutes because of signal failure on the train ahead. According to this law, the train would have to go back to its original station, and the travelers would sit on that train whilst their flight to Paris took off.

These travelers would then have to buy a £100 train ticket to Paris, which would put them back significantly in their budgeting for the trip. Successfully, the travelers arrive in Paris...to find that their hostel is in the middle of the "open fire" section of Paris, where policemen don't bother to regulate.

Subsequently, if we continue to follow this law, it would rain for three straight days and the travelers would find that they had holes in their shoes which meant that their feet were wet. For three straight days. Along the same lines, one of the travelers would become ill. To perfect this law, the travelers would make it to the airport to fly back to London successfully, but would find that their gate was going to the wrong country. An announcement would tell them that their gate was changed and they needed to go through security again. In addition, they would sit for 25 minutes and be told their gate was changed again. Their plane would be delayed an hour and a half.

Landing in London would be successful, but they would miss their express train by thirty seconds, sitting in the freezing cold for 45 minutes. They would make it back to the train station at 12:33, to find the Underground had closed at 12:30. After a £25 cab ride home the travelers would be excited to have succeeded in the face of Murphy's law, only to find that their elevator was broken and they had to walk up five flights of stairs.

And that, my friends, is your lesson in Murphy's Law.

Despite all that, we got to go up in the Eiffel Tower, walk the Champs Elysee, visit the Louvre and go up the Arc di Triomph.

It was a trip of trips.

Cheers!