Tempting Fate

Fate And The Great Unknown

What is Fate?

Our friends at a well know search engine define it as “the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.” This definition is easy to sign up to especially the predetermination by a supernatural power.

The reader may be relieved to discover that this article has nothing to do with the current state of play in Europe or America, rather it has been brought about by something rather mundane yet fairly uncertain.

Any uncertainty brought about by lack of control, there is only so much a vehicle owner can do in preparing a vehicle for its annual MOT test. A test which compulsory here in Great Western Landshire of the UK… in fact in the UK as a whole.

One can ensure there is tread on the tyres, the lights and seat-belts work, the windscreen washers and wipers all do what they’re supposed to do.

Fate Intervenes

Using the above definition of fate, it will be about now, at this very time of writing when the car is up on the ramp and the vehicle technician is crawling all over it that the fickle finger of fate will do whatever it has planned.

Accepting that one can only have control of aspects of the test that will result in complete disaster, bald tyres, broken lights and the like, fate is currently deciding on whether or not this well maintained vehicle is going to be allowed back on the road… or converted into 10,000 coke cans.

Time will tell. . .

A Better Greek Definition of Fate

The three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans. Each person was thought of as a spindle, around which the three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) would spin the thread of human destiny.