The day started inauspiciously for a friend of mine whose son was graduating from UHS, and then it just kept getting worse. The family was late getting started because my friend's mother was 10 minutes late. As they turned off Route 7 en route to the University of Delaware stadium, where the ceremony was taking place, they were a mere three cars behind a slow-moving line-painting crew. When they turned onto a side road to get past the crew, they encountered a parade of fire trucks. By the time they got to the stadium, they'd already missed the "Pomp and Circumstance" procession.
Things didn't get any better afterward. The family had planned to have lunch at Lily's in Kennett, but when they got there they found that the electricity was out. They headed to a West Chester restaurant and were seated. It was then that the waiter slipped on an ice cube and dumped a bowl of miso soup onto my friend's lap.
At that point, she said, all she could do was laugh.
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