Of laws and lost keys...
My room has two keys (and locks). One is for the main door and the other is for the cupboard. Now over these past four and a half days, I have never been able to get to the right key on the first go. It always happens that I instinctively insert the cupboard key in the main door and the main door key in the cupboard.
This 100% failure rate left me exasperated and I thought of a way out. Now, whenever I needed a key, I made the uninstinctive choice, that is, I started choosing the key that I didn't choose. By induction, it was fairly clear that this was simply a matter of wrong choice. And logically, choosing the unchosen key should have solved the problem. Predictably enough, the failure rate was still 100%.
By deduction, I'm now saying that given a choice, one will always pick the wrong key [I've checked with others too...]. Murphy has no law regarding keys. Congratulations, you are one of the first people to read this hypothesis.
And also, I misplace my keys often and amazingly enough, I always find them at the last place I look for them.
Any coincidence here?
This 100% failure rate left me exasperated and I thought of a way out. Now, whenever I needed a key, I made the uninstinctive choice, that is, I started choosing the key that I didn't choose. By induction, it was fairly clear that this was simply a matter of wrong choice. And logically, choosing the unchosen key should have solved the problem. Predictably enough, the failure rate was still 100%.
By deduction, I'm now saying that given a choice, one will always pick the wrong key [I've checked with others too...]. Murphy has no law regarding keys. Congratulations, you are one of the first people to read this hypothesis.
And also, I misplace my keys often and amazingly enough, I always find them at the last place I look for them.
Any coincidence here?
posted by Ankur Pruthi at Monday, June 27, 2005
11 Comments:
I hope there is no allusion and this is not an epilogue to the previous posts written from K : doubting your faculties
Jim paaji,
itna deep nahin jaana tha, no need to probe that much...
This was my first normal post from K...
And I can see, it has not been that good!!!
AnkP
Just do what I did...
Leave Cupboard Messy
Leave Room Messier
Drop Keys into a pile somewhere
Do not ever bother about keys
At the end of your tenure, after packing all your stuff, pick up dusty keys from ground and hand them over.
Works every time
You left the cupboard messy
And left the room messier,
thought all about urself,
and never about the others,
what was once yours,
now it is mine,
your mess makes me think,
it must have been a swine...
he he he...
wot say ;-)
Do as I do and leave the balcony key inside your shelf somewhere :)
"amazingly enough, I always find them at the last place I look for them.
Any coincidence here?"
Do you usually continue looking for stuff even after you find them?
I left the cupboard messy
My clothes were always wrinkled
I could never find any textbook
From the pile in which they were sprinkled
I left my room messy
Dust and dirt, everywhere
It does look like that, ki
For future students, I didn't care
But if I carried my keys around
They would always get lost
This, most future students,
Would find to their cost
So I lived like a pig
And wallowed in my dirt.
Just so you could have a room key
I always wore a wrinkled shirt.
(135 seconds! Woohoo!)
Time is a luxury,
Which I can't waste,
Wish this ends here,
As I'm in a haste,
Shall I write a verse,
or prose would do,
coz you have a job
but I have work to do..
Almost 300 seconds, you beat me hands down at that :-(
@Karra: Despite the fact that you don't waste time finding the right key, you're inevitably late for the breakfast...
Guess most of your morning is spent looking for the keys on your shelf...
@Anon: he he, Do you usually roam around asking explanations for PJs?
The "Key" is to keep only the main door "key" with you.
Rest all, you might not even need to use, ever.
@Abhinav: my instincts are getting better... I'm finding the right key regularly these days...
Why change something now when it ain't broke :-)
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