“The odds of finding yourself behind a slow-poke driver on a single-lane, no-passing-road vary proportionately with how pressed you are for time.”
—Murphy’s Law of the Road; Ross Kaplan.
“The odds of said driver having exactly the same destination as you ” thereby maximizing the amount of time you’re stuck behind them ” also vary directly with how late you’re running.”
—Corollary, Murphy’s Law of the Road; Ross Kaplan.
All of which is why, when I’m waiting to turn on to a street, and the oncoming car is taking forever to drive past me, I don’t feel (especially) guilty about turning onto the road ahead of ’em . . .
