Murphy’s Law in Full Effect

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth.

I was bored with food and tempted to skip lunch altogether, but I’d already been bored with breakfast  ideas and did skip the most important  meal of my day. So I wandered over to the Food Court and picked up the Special #1 to-go from the Chinese booth and headed back to the office so I’d have enough time to check email before rushing to my next meeting.

I’d barely opened my to-go box when I got called in to answer questions on a tasker I’m working for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force’s speech in a few weeks. By the time I got back to my office, my egg roll was ice cold,  the  rice  was  gummy,   and  the   sweet-and-sour chicken didn’t look so sweet anymore.

And by that time, I had to run to my next appointment in  another  building. I had 5 minutes to eat. So I kicked off my shoes,  sipped a tall cup of watered-down Coke, and squashed my fortune cookie open—and lit up my email all at one instant.

Guess I took out a little too much aggression on the fortune cookie because half of it skittered across my desk. This is what happens when I clean off my desk—nothing to block fleeing food!

Great, I thought. There goes half my lunch.

But I plucked  my fortune  from  the remains  of the cookie on the desk and read it out loud: “You are a person of culture.”

Which is why the other half of my fortune cookie had fallen onto the floor and into my shoe.