But fate it seems, does not work without a sense of irony

You have been working your arse off for 3 weeks doing 14 hour days and bending backwards to keep up your personal commitments. One day you decide that you can take the evening off and leave office at 5:30. You decide to leave in 5 minutes with your friend on his bike. In two minutes he gets called to an emergency meeting which drags on and on for two hours. All plans ditched. Life is fucking cruel, just when you thought you saw some light.