Mercury Must be in Retrograde!!!!

I've always been interested in astrology but this is getting a little freaky. A friend at work introduced me to legitimate astrology a few years ago. The biggest thing I've learned is machines hate it when when "Mercury is in retrograde". It's Murphy's Law for all things with moving parts. Well, since Dave and I were on vacation I think it's be in retrograde. The mower was fine until we started using it to pull a lawn cart to move dirt for our new patio. Then the chipper wouldn't start. Then the mower got worse. You get the idea. Today we were really cooling on digging out for the patio. The mower still had issues but we were getting by. All of a sudden, one of the cart tires springs a leak and goes pancake flat. So we decide to call it quits and cool off. I just thought you should all know we are DEFINITELY in retrograde.