Lock-Unlock

At ISB, I always carry 2 keys with me - one of the apartment's main door (shared by us 4 quaddies) and the other one of my room. Both the locks being the same make, the keys are identical looking. [unless you strain your eyes to read the actual no. written on them - which is obviously different]

A concept, followed by subsequent recording of observations over last 21 days, and the final NULL Hypothesis test [the one we N(M)ulled over in our stats class] has led me to formulate the following law empirically [with a reasonable amount of acceptable contention :)] -

Among a set of identical looking keys, the one that actually opens the lock, will be the last one among the lot - no matter whichever key you start with.

Reflecting upon it, it turns out to be a corollary to Murphy's Law - adding the count of no-of-corollaries-to-Murhpy's law by 1.

Murphy's Law states: If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.
The more popular formualtion of the law being - Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Interestingly there are a number of interesting corollaries to this law [Ref. Author Arthur Bloch's compilations]. Examples -

- A slice of buttered bread, when dropped, will always land butter-side down
- If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway
- The other line always moves faster

Presenting this law as a life philosophy, it talks about making leeway for the possible flaws in anything to everything that may come across our voyage called 'Life'.