Technology

Has anyone ever noticed that technology almost always ceases to work when you want it to work the most??

Be it phones, or the computer, or the printer, or the scanner, or the modem, or the internet browser, or the Internet itself - they all work fine and dandy in peace time. Everyone is perky, doing what they do the best, taking calls, printing, scanning, processing, allowing you to surf the web, etc. However, the moment that you are in trouble, and you NEED the phone, or the printer, or scanner, or the browser to search for that exact thing on the Net, or the website that you want to search it on, or the computer itself - they just give up. Thats it, they just freeze, stop working, hang, reboot, go down, become unavailable, whatever. At the slightest hint of real work they leave you high and dry, stranded without that vital piece of information.. A long wait ensues, often filled with impatience, restarting, rebooting, reloading, resetting, and ofcourse, swearing and frustration.

Why?? Why does it happen that way? Does technology sense that you are in need of something important, and just to play with your soul it behaves the way it does? Why does it not work when we really really need it? Do we use technology for our work, or does technology use us for its entertainment?