When your number is up it is up.

[Sysman]

One thing that definitely can't be explained by any rational means though are T-junctions. Where you would prefer not to slow down too much or use a gear lower than 2nd to negotiate it, a car will be coming in the opposite direction at the exact wrong time and another car will not come down that road for about a month. Okay, I exaggerate a little, but it is infuriating.

Or on a long straight road with hardly any traffic. When you come across something slow ahead, another vehicle coming in the opposite direction will appear, going at precisely the right speed so that you have to slow down before overtaking the slow vehicle ahead of you.

You can speed up or slow down to try and avoid it; if you do it'll be to no avail.

There could be something in the subconscious here.

[Cyberman]

Plus it's easy to believe an event is extraordinary after the event. I could roll a die 10 times and get : 2,2,4,2,6,5,2,1,3,1 (or any other sequence) and say that the odds of that happening are millions to 1.

One thing that definitely can't be explained by any rational means though are T-junctions. Where you would prefer not to slow down too much or use a gear lower than 2nd to negotiate it, a car will be coming in the opposite direction at the exact wrong time and another car will not come down that road for about a month. Okay, I exaggerate a little, but it is infuriating.

One day, all cars will have radar and we will not have to suffer this annoying situation.

[threaded]

Which bit do you mean? I would have thought that



was a pretty clear demonstration of cause and effect

The one where someone manages to escape an accident and then some other accident gets them, and one says 'oh their time was up'.

It is much like buying a lottery ticket, losing, and then next week buying another ticket because you think you stand a better chance of winning this time because you didn't win last time, 'so it must be my turn', whereas the odds are exactly the same each time.

[Stan.goodvibes]

A similar thing happened to a cousin of mine, he was a cook on a train Dublin to Cork when he swapped shifts with another cook. Train crashed and the cook was killed, one year later he was asked to change shifts, train crashed and he was killed. When your time is up

OK I'm confused. So his time was up the first time when he escaped death, or the second time when he didn't?

And if your time is up, but you can still live an extra year, what is the minimum length of time you have to live for *after* you escape death so that when you eventually do die, people don't make the 'when your time is up' comment?