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Thanks, Murphy

August 04, 2009, in Military Life by

Here's another version of Murphy's Law for the milspouse:

When your husband has been deployed for three weeks with limited communications options so far, and he finally gets a computer and gets to IM for the first time of the deployment…your doorbell will ring and your phone will ring twice during his allotted 30 minutes of chatting.

And the phone will be someone important, like your OB nurse, so you will have to take the call and multitask.

Naturally, you've been sitting by the phone all day and haven't had anyone call you…until it matters.

Thanks a lot, Murphy.

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About Sarah

Sarah has been an Army wife for only eight years so far, but what an eight years it's been: 5 duty stations, 4 branches of the Army, 3 deployments, 2 years of failed attempts to start a family, and 1 baby born a week after a nine-month deployment.

Sarah spends most of her time these days involved with various baby playgroups on post. She also spends so much of her time in sweatsuits that her husband says she belongs in a Wes Anderson movie. Sarah's hobbies include making babyfood and trying to squeeze in a bit of knitting in the evenings. Notable projects include a stuffed Chinook and a four-fingered glove for Joan D'Arc's husband.

Comments

  1. Sara V. says:
    August 4, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    Did the nurse at least have positive things to say that you were able to pass to the husband?

  2. Semper Fi Wife says:
    August 5, 2009 at 4:14 am

    I hate Murphy.

  3. Sarah (luvslikepi) says:
    August 5, 2009 at 6:01 am

    My favorite – you wait all day for that Skype phone call..then you have to run out of your office for a few minutes and voila…they come online.
    Murphy is a bad, bad…person.

  4. David M says:
    August 5, 2009 at 6:17 am

    The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 08/05/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
    http://www.thunderrun.us/2009/08/from-front-08052…

  5. AFSister says:
    August 6, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Murphy is such an ass.