text:  Life's just better when you feel in control, isn't it? Even if that's only in small ways. When things are on time, how we thought they'd be, what we wanted, how we hoped, it's reassuring, comforting. Because we all dread the alternative, don't we? The phone call announcing disaster. The mistake that we just don't quite get away with. All the ways, small and big, that the universe can show you it's not kind. Like this.