THE BAD LUCK THEORY
You invite your friends over to watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV. There are plenty of sodas in the refrigerator, the popcorn is popping, and you are all set to watch the big game. You turn on the TV set, and all you get are fuzzy images on the screen. Is this plain bad luck or is it Murphy's Law at work? Murphy's Law states: If anything can go wrong, it will.
Similar situations occur all the time.When you're in a hurry to open the door and you try several keys on the key ring,the last remaining key is usually the one that works.When you get in a line at the supermarket,Is this bad luck or coincidence? According to British physicist Robert Mathew,it's neither one nor the other.Mathew became a popular scientist when he proved that a piece of toast doesn't necessarily fall on the floor on the buttered side.Now here's a tricky question for Mathews.It's a known fact that cats always fall on their four legs.Just remember that you cannot blame Murphy's Law for everything that goes wrong.And if you lose all your files on the computer,it's not bad luck-it's your fault for not doing a backup of your files.