We heard an excited yell from the kitchen and the family rushed in to see what the commotion was about.
My father was putting butter and jam on a piece of bread and he had knocked it off the counter. It dropped to the floor, where by some miracle it had landed buttered-side up.
“Buttered-side up!” he was exclaiming with joy, “It landed buttered-side up! What are the chances of that? It never lands buttered-side up!”
Still overjoyed with his luck, he bent down to pick up the piece of bread… and fumbled. It did a neat 180° flip back onto the floor.
Comment by Alastair on June 9, 2006
Which reminds me of this classic perpetual motion machine…