Murphy's Law again

Had a few strange days where all sorts of things around the home have gone wrong. The hot tap on the shower, which has always had a mind of its own, wouldn't spit out water despite opening it fully and pulling it forwards as usual. This resulted in my having to fix up the second bathroom shower. About 20 years ago (yes!) the drywalling around the shower rose showed signs of damp and, fearing an internal leak, I got the insurance to send a plumber around to check it out. The drywalling and tiling on the tap wall were removed and it was pronounced that no leak could be found. As there was no problem, apparently, and therefore no insurance claim, the deconstruction was not reconstructed and we were left to do it ourselves. Things move slowly in this household, as you will be aware by now, and 20 years later the wall has still not been replaced, because we have another shower and everyone just uses that. I did some quick repairs, by nailing a few refuse bags to the internal struts and voila! another shower in use again. So simple, yet so difficult. This temporary solution will doubtless remain in place for a further 20 years. Of course, as Murphy's Law is also the basis for all events in this house, HWCFA turned the hot tap on in our shower and it spewed forth as always, so he doesn't believe me when I say it didn't work.

The incredibly solid and heavy electric sliding gate played games and would either open 30cm and jam, or open halfway so that the car could just squeeze through. Or, as a variation, it would open fully and then close immediately as I was driving through. The solution to this was to disconnect the mechanism and trundle it backwards and forwards manually, re-engage the cogs and again all would be well. But it soon played up again for K - although I must say that she seems to put a jinx on all electrical appliances - and I had to go through the whole palaver again. Needless to say, when HWCFA arrived home, the gate behaved beautifully and my sob story about things going wrong was once again dismissed as exaggeration.

If there is any proof required for the existence of parallel universes, this appears to me to be totally adequate!