Fate-baiting

Posted on | March 7, 2008 11 Comments | e-mail | print

Do I send in the non-refundable $75 registration fee for preschool in the hopes that, by Murphy’s law, we will have moved by next fall, thereby losing it? In other words, is $75 too low a price to pay to try to goad Fate into getting us a job back West? Is it really Murphy’s Law if you want a certain outcome to occur?

Here’s what I’m aiming for. I want to invoke the smoking diner principle — the minute you light up a cigarette, the waitress brings your dinner.

Category: preschooler

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11 Responses to “Fate-baiting”

Christina
March 7th, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

Your registration fee is only $75!? Mine was $155!
If preschool is as difficult to get in up there as it is down here I’d pay the money. Better safe than sorry.
We were so desperate to get Jake a spot for next year that we had 2 lottery registrations in one day. We got lucky with one of them. The only sunny side is that Georgia has state funded pre-k available for every 4 year old…for free! That’s where Mia is going next year.
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juliloquy
March 7th, 2008 @ 9:01 pm

Smoking diner principle - love it! Related, of course, to the hot meal/ravenous baby principle. Never fails.

I’d say yes, register. Hope it works!
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a happier girl
March 7th, 2008 @ 9:44 pm

I’ve found since having kids that I’ve moved from the smoking dinner principle to the potty dinner principle which is that the minute your newly potty trained toddler will announce they need to go to the bathroom the waitress will bring your dinner.
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Beth
March 7th, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

Sounds like a brilliant plan. Best of luck!

You just reminded me that I have to pre-pay September tuition (non refundable of course) to my lovely preschool in addition to the $50 registration and this months tuition. Ugh. No idea why we are not saving more for college…
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denise
March 8th, 2008 @ 2:00 am

how exactly are you defining “west” dear?
b/c I am too much of an idiot girl to kidnap you to bettsville to see the most fabric in one place at one time. you’ll never believe it if you don’t see it.
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HVM
March 8th, 2008 @ 9:17 am

i’d do it. totally reasonable.
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kirida
March 8th, 2008 @ 10:29 am

I say do it.
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christina
March 8th, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

this is funny. and i totally get the smoking diner principle. i like the way you think. which i guess is because it is the way that i think, so yeah i like the way i think too…?
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kelly
March 9th, 2008 @ 7:49 am

oh, light that smoke and pack your bags for milwaukee, woman. you can stay here and i will be your butler and nanny.
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Craft continues… « ask the sky
March 9th, 2008 @ 2:54 pm

[…] I can’t turn off, happily, although it’s frustrating to say the least. But, much like supa the other day, I decided this week to tempt fate- I thought, if I make a new winter hat, it will […]
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supa
March 9th, 2008 @ 7:22 pm

you are all brilliant. I will send it in tomorrow.
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