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||Murphy's law..

What's Murphy's Law, you say? Let me explain to you with instances you can relate to :

  • A girl used to falling on flat surfaces in front of her crush. 
  • The guy who runs out of words every time he musters up the courage to go up to that cute girl and talk to her. 
  • Missing the lift by a second. Your crush is in the lift.
  • Running smack into people you're trying to avoid.
  • Getting late to work on the day you have an early meeting.
  • Being the lucky person whose head a pigeon decides to shit on while they're waiting at the bus stop. (Yes, that's why they're pigeons, not doves. They're uncouth little noisy creatures.)
  • Getting your top stuck to a nail in the Mumbai locals. 
  • Falling out of a bus flat on your face while alighting.
  • Being friends with a loud person who has a crush on the guy you have a crush on who, of course, has a crush on someone else.
  • Taking halloween costumes seriously and showing up as a troll when everyone's in black tie.
  • Running out of cornflakes. (I don't care if you disagree.)
  • Your phone decides to hang when you're getting that once in a blue moon call from a good friend.
  • Your friends abusing (not on purpose) when your parents call.
And as someone who has had more than her fair share of such instances, I could just be the practical counterpart for this frigging law.

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