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Murphy’s Law: A Practical Application

“Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.”

Truer words have never been spoken.

Sunday, August 30, 2009 started early for us. Up at 5:30am, I headed over to the Always Open convenience store to get some milk and a coffee for Charles. It was moving day, and mostly everything was packed; we didn’t want to have to move an entire kitchen’s worth of food, so the coffee-making supplies were packed and when we ran out of milk on Saturday, we decided to rely on the nearby convenience store, whose name really bears repeating: Always Open.

When I got there, I saw this:

(This is a story of epic proportions with lots of pictures, read on under the cut!)
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