1). It's a sunny morning, you decide not to face the eternal battle of trying to cram your umbrella into your bag and go umbrella commando today, only to step out of the tube on the other side and discover it's now pouring with rain (this is particularly annoying when it's the middle of July!)
2). When you trip on a pothole in the middle of the street, but manage to gracefully turn it into what looks like a weirdly impulsive though deliberate jog, only to then trip again a few seconds later...down some stairs.
3). When you're on your way back home after doing your weekly food shop, and you're looking forward to a nice and easy pasta dinner, when your Tesco bags (yes TWO bags!) break half way across Waterloo bridge.
4). When you've just finished a great piece of work, one you know you could never replicate to such a high standard ever again in your entire life, so obviously this is when your computer crashes/runs out of battery/any other classic computer muck-up, and you lose all your work!
5). When you spend weeks creating the perfect costume for your friend's themed birthday party, only to turn up and be the only one in costume. Turns out, everyone had thought the whole "dressing up" idea was kind of lame and you're the only one who didn't get the memo.
6). When you're about to do the last stage (your hair) of the "getting ready" process for a date, and your hairdryer breaks! Wishing to avoid the embarrassment of exiting the house (and having your date see you like this!) with what can only be described as a "cavewoman" hairdo, you call them up to cancel with an pitiful and poorly-planned excuse.
7). When you wake up with the flu even though you haven't been sick in a year...oh, did we mention this is on the morning of one of your biggest exams?
8). When you're with a group of people you're hoping to impress, and you interrupt someone in a brief pause to chip in with what you feel is the perfect anecdote, only to forget what you're saying half way through your sentence. Typical!
9). When you get home and discover that you've forgotten your keys and you're locked out. You reach into your bag to get out your phone and call one of your housemates to see if they can let you in, only to see that your phone's ran out of battery. You're then left with two choices: either pay to take the journey all the way back from where you came, or sit outside your front door feeling sorry for yourself and wait for one of your housemates (who had previously reminded you several times to charge your phone!) to get home at the end of the day and let you in.
10). You've booked an absurdly early time for your flight tomorrow (feeling it'll allow you to get the most out of your day when you arrive), but you're alarm doesn't go off! Whether by fate or sheer luck, you manage to wake up and, and realising how far behind schedule you are, begin rushing around trying to get ready in the midst of your personal "I'm going to miss my flight!" panic. You finally get to the airport feeling extremely proud of your marathon speed, check in, go through security, and run to the gate praying that the flight hasn't left yet. You get to the gate, but there's no one else there. As it happens, the clocks had gone back by an hour the night before and you just hadn't realised. Now you get to sit at an empty gate for the next hour, yay!
