why is it that the doorbell (or phone) always rings precisely one nanosecond AFTER you pour the milk over your cereal? why?

i'd just drenched my frosted mini-wheats when the doorbell rang. it was a neighborhood kid wanting to sell me something from her school catalog - no doubt a hideous tin bucket adorned with heart decals, complete with a bag of gummy bears crammed inside. or maybe some flavored pecans.

i told her i wasn't interested.

she got a really sad/confused/i-can't-believe-you-just-told-me-no look on her face and stood on the porch for several extra seconds before finally slogging off to the next house. i hate to crush a kid, but 1) i don't want to spend what spare cash i do have on gummy bears (even for a good cause) and 2) my cereal was getting soggy. does this make me stingy and selfish? probably. but i can live with that.