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“There are, in life, a number of almost folkloric laws that have turned out to be quite useful in the advancement of mankind's lot. Sod's, Parkinson's and averages spring to mind, along with diminishing returns and the first and second laws of thermodynamics, though possibly only if you're designing a steam engine. I'd like to add a new one, which I will call May's Law of the Imminent Accident, and which is best illustrated with a graph.”


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“I would urge you to be honest with yourself and then try drawing your own May's Law graph. It may help you. I'm not overly keen on health and safety and I believe that life is better when exuberance holds sway over caution, but the bottoms of ditches are best avoided. As is casualty.” — James May

I recommend the above-cited entertaining article in its entirety. I believe that May's Law of the Imminent Accident belongs right up there with Murphy's Law and the lesser known, albeit just as fundamental, the ever confounding Universal Law of the Cussedness of Inanimate Objects.