" But a thing I’ve often noticed is that when I’ve got something off my mind, it pretty nearly always happens that Fate sidles up and shoves on something else, "

― P.G. Wodehouse , The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 4: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit / Stiff Upper Lip / Jeeves and Jeeves in the Offing (Jeeves, #11-13)