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“It never rains, but what it pours,” sang Judy Garland to Mickey Rooney in 1938, memorably describing what happens “if Lady Luck should happen to desert you.”
You stub your toe, ouch,
You hit your elbow, ooh,
You bump your head, ooh.
You step on a tack and you let out a howl.
There’s soap in your eyes and you can’t find a towel.
You try to comb your hair but can’t arrange it,
Spill orange juice on your dress and have to change it.
Then all day long
Everything you touch goes wrong.
“The same thing happens in life,” the song goes on. “But on a very much larger scale.”