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this is what I am saying
"I have a plan. I always have a plan. But the things about plans is that no matter how much you plan there is always those inexorable, pesky _____."

Those pesky what? What is word for the things that can go wrong on a plan? If there is even one!

Thank yo so very much.

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Snags? Hitches?

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Glitches?

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complications.. catches.. obstacles..

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Discombobulations?

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stranger
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variables?


“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”


― Albert Einstein
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If you want to make it into a trip/travel metaphor, there are often unexpected, unwanted, unanticipated potholes along the way...

(Didn't notice - the issue is by now most likely moot: the question was posed last September)

Last edited by wofahulicodoc; 04/09/2016 8:57 PM. Reason: (afterthought)

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