What Does Murphy's Law Mean To Me Essay

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Murphy's Law states, "things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance," there are certain mistakes in life that people have to make on their own to learn a lesson. Certain life experiences can affect the way that one lives their life or how they go about doing something. When something makes an impact on someone’s life it sticks with them. Watching it happen to someone else, may or may not do any good. For me, it doesn’t. I would witness something, and simply think, “That’ll never happen to me.” And then reality came with a vengeance. Such an enormous lesson was taught to me by a very small thing, keys.

Going back almost thirteen years ago, I was four years old, in the store with my mother. We’d just finished

I finally got my license! It is such a great feeling of freedom and excitement. As a new driver, my father taught me how to drive. My mother wanted nothing to do with teaching me how to drive. Though both of my parents helped teach me the rules of the road and then had me take a driver’s education course. I really learned a lot from the course. It helped me understand things like four way stops and what to do if a traffic light is out. The course helped me gain knowledge of things that I wouldn’t have otherwise. It was very helpful. No matter how helpful, there are some common sense aspects that a course can’t teach you. A lot of that is where my parents came to the rescue. Such as what to do if I witness an accident or different ways to get home due to traffic. Despite all help, there are some things that one can be told, but not taught, until experience becomes one’s

I don’t have my own car so I often drove my fathers’ car. When my sister came home from college, she let me use her car whenever I needed it. Her car is newer and is a push to start. This means that there is nowhere to insert the key, as long as the key is in the car it will start. I pushed the button on the door to lock the car. I didn’t recall hearing the beep that indicates that the door is locked. We proceeded to go to the mall and spent about two hours there and then headed back to the car. When we reached the car I pressed the button on the door to unlock the car. It made a long beeping noise for about 5 seconds. I’d never heard that noise before. My friend and I exchanged a look of confusion. I looked for my keys in my bag, nothing. Then I saw them in the car, it was around the rearview mirror with my sister’s tassel from graduation. I tried to open the door. There was no luck. The car is push to start, it shouldn’t have even locked with the key being in the car. However, that’s exactly what it did. I called my father and he met me at the mall and called Triple A. They got the key out of the car. We came to find out that the battery in the key was