Hating it again

- When you have your arms full and a mosquito is sucking blood from your ear lobe and you can do nothing about it.

Feeling bound and abused

- When it the dark you put on your pyjama top back to front and it feels like it does not fit properly, and when you take it off and put it on again it is still wrong.

Darknes bringing confusion

- When you are going up stairs and you step up a stair that is not there.

confronted by the unexpected

- When your hands are full of shopping and your car keys are in your pocket.

Struggling to put things in order.

- When there are lots of doors to open to get to where you want to go

Barred from going where you want to go.

- When a door has three handles or locks on it and it needs two people to open it and you are there by yourself.

Stones on the pathway, barriers

- When the bottom is about to fall out of the paper shopping bag

Let down by the weekness of material things

- When radishes go to seed and you have not eaten any of them.

Regretting the passage of time

- When the bus driver moves away from the bus stop, and no matter how hard you bang on the door he will not open it up and let you in.

Obstructed by officialdom

- When you are a second late for a train and it pulls away from the platform.

Missing out on your journey because you have not planned ahead.

- When the car runs out of petrol and there is not a garage in sight, and when you try to call for help on the phone the battery goes dead.

Inconvenienced by modern convenieces

- When directory of inquiries can find a phone number for you when you know it exists. When they don't even recognise your own name.

Never in the book when you need it to be there. Always in the book when you don't want it to be there. The records are either lost or against us.

- When you have done the shopping only to discover you have left your wallet in the car.

The dilema of what to to next.

- When you can't find your car in the airport parking lot.

Lost

- When sombody wags their finger at you, beeps their horn, and flashes their lights, and you have no idea why they are doing it or if it is really directed at you.

Officialdom sanctioning you for breaking rules that you did not know existed.

- When nails keep bending over when you try to hammer them in.

Trying you best and not getting things right.

- When nails refuse to come out of wood no matter how hard you pull.

Trying even harder but getting nowhere.

- When you crack your head on the door lintel because the door is too small

Trying to get into places that you should not go and suffering for it.

- When in the pitch black with arms outstreached you inch your way to where you think the open door is, only to have both arms go on opposite sides of the door, with the end result that you crack your head on the edge of the door.

Pain inflicted because you choose to walk in the dark

- When the chain comes off you bike when you are going uphill and changing gears.

The worst things happen at the most inappropriate times

- When you are positive that you right and it turns out that you are wrong.

Stupidity and stuborness a deadly combination.

- When you say something to a group of people and realise nobody is listening.

Ignored for what you want to say.

- When your soup is too salty.

Never put salt on your food before tasting it. More of the same does not make it better.

- When the bit of cheese you ave been saving for later has turned mouldy.

Things go bad if not kept properly.

- When you realise the things that you don't want to happen are going to happen anyway.

Fate is a bad concept and needs to be fought against