For some strange reason, things often go wrong at the end of my work day.  Not at the beginning or in the middle.  Only at the end of the day. 

A few weeks ago, I had to leave work by a certain time to make it to a dinner at someone's house.  I was running a little late as it was, so I was rushing to finish up a few small things and shut off my computer.  Just as I walked out of my cubicle and was about to leave, a guy stopped me and asked me to do some stupid security thing.  It wouldn't have been a problem on any other day, but I happened to be running late and I needed to be somewhere.  And of course everyone else had gone home already, so I was the only one who could complete this mindless task.  Needless to say, I did it and was only a little late for my dinner thing. 

Just last week, I was trying to leave at the end of the day on a Friday.  My computer started to act a little weird, so I tried shutting it down.  The clock struck 5pm.  In a rare moment of instability, Windows XP became stupid.  It wouldn't respond to anything I was trying to do, and I couldn't even CTRL-ALT-DEL or end any processes.  After about 10 minutes, I was finally able to restart.  But as the computer started back up, it began the process all over again and went stupid again.  By the time I finally fixed the problem and successfully shut down my computer, it was 5:20pm, a whole 20 minutes later than I wanted to leave on a Friday. 

If this stuff happened at any other time during the day, it wouldn't be a big deal at all.  But instead it happens when I'm trying to leave on a Friday or when I have to be somewhere at a certain time.  Why does this stuff happen at the end of the day?  Because there's some sort of cosmic force working against me that wants to waste my time and make me late for things. #business