My old man used to have two sayings, translated to english they are the following:
If its raining porridge you have to fill your bowl. This was usually used when he wanted my brother and I to make use of all the opportunities we get.
The other one was "if the porridge falls on the ground" which is the same equivalent as "$#%^ hitting the fan".
But this is something I realized this morning, for me as someone with an extreme diagnosis of bipolar II, there aren't that many porridge rainstorms for people like me and the bowl we hold porridge in has a massive hole right at the bottom so falling porridge is unavoidable.
It seems that karma had a bipolar boyfriend and he broke her heart now she is out to get us. Hell hath no fury and all that stuff....