Another gift bag on the porch. Thanks, secret Santa
by Chris Erskine , Los Angeles Times
Jan 01, 2019
3 minutes
We put a new roof on the house last week, so I expect it never to rain again. It's one of those rules of inverse preparation. You wash the car; it rains. You put a new lid on the house; it doesn't.
Call it "Erskine's Law": the ultimate triumph of irony over logic.
For two years, I tried to locate the leak. The old roof was only 15, and like most 15-year-olds, it would roll its eyes at
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