Does any one of these or a few of these or all of these happened to you?

These almost always happen to me. Sometimes I feel like I am the unluckiest person in the world. Sometimes when you are driving a car, every street corner gives you a red light. When standing in line to buy food, when it is your turn your order isn't available and the person in front of you got the last piece. If you need a coin, you will not find any in your wallet but if you don't need it, as if everyone gives you a change full of coins...

When you are very hungry you order too much food and when it arrives, you feel like you are already full.

Most of these are classed as variants or special cases of "Murphy's Law", commonly stated as "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". The real reason for most of them is NOT our 'bad luck' or that it really does 'always happen'. It is simply that our minds tend to remember the bad times more than the good times and attempt to see a 'pattern' where there is none! In fact, some of these phenomena even have mathematical proofs (though the math is often fearsomely complicated!). The queue theory is actually quite easy to explain and has been studied in depth. It applies equally to checkouts and queues on the motorway. The explanation comes in two parts. The first part is objective in that, generally, before joining a queue, we observe a it for a short period and make a decision about which one is the shortest and will probably take the least time to get through. We do not, in fact, study the queues for long enough to determine whether its REAL average speed is faster than any other one. Also, if we are in a queue which is not moving, our attention is always drawn to the ones which are moving faster than our own. We don't even consider that if we happen to be in the fastest moving queue, so we always REMEMBER the situations where we are in the slower moving queue! The second part is causative. Just the act of joining a queue automatically slows that queue down and if several people perceive that a particular queue is shorter at the same time (especially in a multi-lane traffic queue) and move to that queue, they tend to make that queue slower and the queue that they have left faster. The one about the power going off when beginning to watch a favourite program is quite easily explained. The simple fact is that, if we consider it a favourite or of particular importance, then the likelihood is that many others do to. If a lot of people switch on the TV or change to a particular channel at once, they are very likely to cause an overload of the power system somewhere and some part of it is MUCH more likely to give way at that point. It is less easy to explain the phenomenon of phoning someone and learning that they were thinking of doing the same thing but, although we tend to think of ourselves as independent beings, we are far more controlled by our daily routine and by subconscious thoughts than we realise. If we have an 'impulse' to phone someone, it is usually inspired by some news of that person or of something which is of interest to both of us, so a similar 'impulse' can very often happen to two people simultaneously (because some piece of news which caused us to think of the other person has been received by both at roughly the same time). Again, our memories do very often play tricks on us and we tend to notice or remember the 'remarkable coincidences' more than we do the mundane ones.

yes they have happened to me too. sometimes when i am about to message a friend, they message me too right at the same time. and yes i don't like it when i watch my favorite show and the electricity goes down. especially when it is the only time you can watch it hehehe i get devastated hehehe

These are instances which I really hate. That moment when you are very in a hurry and seems like the fate is so bad that you can't go along. That moment when everything is all set and it is being cancelled or postpone. There are still many of this. Even though, I still want to think optimistic and say that 'Everything will be alright.'