Law of Murphy's Statistics
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 07:02 amIf you walk into a hardware store, say to buy a part to fix your broken toilet, you will discover that toilet parts come in a variety of sizes. There is no standard. Ever. This leaves you standing in front of the wall of toilet parts going "I was supposed to measure it? It's a toilet part! How different can one toilet be from another?"
Supposed you have 120 different kinds of part you need for a toilet. Out of those 120, four will not work with your toilet even if you get one that's designed for idiots who didn't know they had to measure for the part. Statistics tell us that a person has a 1 in 30 chance of picking the wrong part.
Murphy tells us that a person will pick the wrong part 9 out of 10 times.
Guess who gets to go back to Lowe's tonight to exchange the part she bought to fix the downstairs toilet? -_-
Supposed you have 120 different kinds of part you need for a toilet. Out of those 120, four will not work with your toilet even if you get one that's designed for idiots who didn't know they had to measure for the part. Statistics tell us that a person has a 1 in 30 chance of picking the wrong part.
Murphy tells us that a person will pick the wrong part 9 out of 10 times.
Guess who gets to go back to Lowe's tonight to exchange the part she bought to fix the downstairs toilet? -_-