o __ o boohoo! I jinxed the sox!

[dradamsapple]

Well, I had a funny feeling this would happen.

The Red Sox lost! OH woe is us!

My fellow coworker this evening, Pete, naturally wanted to listen to 
the game on the radio.  I knew from the start that this was a bad 
omen.  See, this is the first nite that Iwas working while the Sox 
were playing.  And, as Ihave done this past week, I have avoided 
watching the game till the last two innings or so (and, yes, I wore 
clean underwear everyday!), and they managed to win.
  And tonite, I had to go into another area of the lab, removed from 
the main lab, not being able to hear the radio, and when I came back, 
the Sox were up 2-0.  Yeah! But, could I stay out of the lab for the 
rest of the nite?  I HAD to get back into the main lab!  How could I 
explain to Pete that I couldn't work in the lab tonite cause the Sox 
would lose if I did; that If I listened or watched the entire game 
the Sox would lose?  Well, I did listen, and they did lose.  Poor 
Sox.  
   Well, back to Beantown. (saturday?) Maybe we'll kick some butt, 
er, I mean, win the game then.

two games down; three to go . . .

Anna . . .(who was going to ask the group about a good vacuum cleaner 
that picks up yellow-lab dog hair and won't die in two years, but 
decided that there have been an awful lot of consumer product 
questions lately, and didn't want to burden the group with another 
one.  Well, maybe one more? 
Heh, maybe we should start a HPFG Consumer Advice group?? er, only 
joking. Really.)