Reader offers response to recent column in T-H

Dear Editor,

Have you noticed how things somehow 'break down' at inopportune moments?

Like the fly swatter breaking in half on a single fly? They signal their friends and family and they come in like a WWII movie full of bombers flying a mission. How can they communicate and ATT does not have enough bars on my phone to use unless I am downtown?

Is it planned obsolescence that the plastic deteriorates in 12 months or less? Or simply my bad luck and Walmart's yearly gain in sales?

What about spray cans of spider killer that you thought were full yesterday and today that 8 legged creature from another planet walked by your foot in the bathroom with, I swear, a smirk on his face. He lucked out this time.

Note to self: order a case of bug spray delivered overnight.

How about the moment your turn to speak at a conference comes and you stand up to see an important button pop off and roll away?

Note to self: Always wear pullover tops and elastic waist bottoms.

What about the timing of 'running out of something?’

Seems I always lack one final ingredient for those decadent brownies my husband loves. And then, final disgrace, I find it hidden behind something else when I put the ingredients away.

Note to self: I should bake more often?

Ever 'miss' putting out the trash only to hear the truck coming down the road and your can beside the house? Yep, it only happens when it is overflowing too.

Note to self: get a shorter driveway with next house.

Remember driving along nicely and see that green light go yellow as your near the crosswalk? I swear there are hidden sensors that make it go red faster when a police car is coming out of nowhere.

Note to self: stop on yellow and get the police to write up rear end accident. You can't win this one. Unless you get hit by a big truck and live to sue over it.

How about the reading 'tests' at the gas pumps? It only happens when we want a quick fill-up, the ominous note on the pump. Handwriting deciphering was hard enough when I taught school, now I need help to see what some kind person was trying to say to save me time and effort I guess. Did it say no credit cards? What? Where does my money go in at?

Maybe getting older is just a test of endurance, for me, not my flyswatters. I think I'll add those to my bug spray order.

Carolyn Goodell