LUCKY BREAK
My wife is one of the luckiest women in the world. Don’t take my word for it – ask all her friends. Last summer she tripped on a rock and broke her wrist. Ordinarily you would call this a piece of bad luck, but it turns out she did everything just right. This is the way the conversation went a day after the accident. “My wife broke her wrist.” “Was it the right wrist or the left wrist?” a friend asked. “The left,” I said. “She’s lucky it was the left. If she broke the right it could be twice as inconvenient.” The next friend wanted to know if after she tripped she fell forward or backward. “I’m not sure,” I said. “Does it matter?” “Of course it matters,” he replied. “If she fell forward it was the best thing that could happen, because otherwise she could have injured her back. By breaking her fall with her hand she saved injuring her…
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