Murphy's law is an adage , whose essence is "Anything that can possibly go wrong , will definitely go wrong" and if there is a possibility of something going wrong in one of the several manner then it will go wrong in that manner which will cause the maximum damage . In fact , this law seems quite eerie initially , but as we oversee things happening in our daily life , we will culminate that this bizarre law, in fact holds true in all situation , irrespective of whatever field we choose to apply .
For better understaning of the law : http://sidjustice21.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
Here i am narrating some sequence of incidents happened with me and the existence of murphy's law over there proves it's ubiquity .
We , four school friends ( well , out of four 3 IITians :( ) went on a hang out session with our fascinating bikes to enjoy the holidays , and while we were riding on our bikes feeling akin to conqueror of the world and reckoning everybody else on the way as very inferior to us , a road accident drawn our attention and our exquisite journey was shattered in a spur of the moment. The accident was between a bajaj scooter ( a 60 year old gentleman ) and an activa ( an 19 year vivacious girl ) while crossing the road . As i was the active eyewitness of the accident , i would say that the 60 year old gentleman was made scapegoat for a third person's incompetence ( won't say "intentions" ::Jeevan Vidya comes to handy here :) ) who was giving his indicator's signal in the opposite direction of where he was heading and due to that the gentleman got bewildered and meanwhile the activa came out of the nearby lane . The poor old man could not make his mind as what to do in that quandary situation and headed into the activa . The girl could not even discern as what has happened and in the twinkling of eyes , both crumbled down to ground. The scooter fell on the poor man's feet and it was like "oh my God " . The person who was giving the wrong signal , apparantly didn't have the time to look at the backside and to indulge into the messy situation . He didn't waste even a single nanosecond and disappeared from there like a storm having 1000 kph speed has engulfed him . So here a possibility of something "Bad happening " arises and which has to be magnified by the Murphy's law as per the statement of law and exactly the same happened . No sooner did they fell down to the ground , a bike rider seeming amateur , just behind the activa, could not apply his break in time and it went onto the girl's ankle joint resulting into the sudden outbreak of lady's ankle bone ( just guessed this as appeared from the situation ) . The obnoxious scene soon molded itself into an uncanny scenario by arrival of policemen and people amassed there to make out exactly how did the whole thing go awry. Meanwhile ambulance approached the spot and both were taken to their new destination . Murphy's law was still with me and it showed it's very existence soon.
According to our plan we were going out of the city to accomplish the exuberant task for which we have planned for last 15 days . On the way we reached to a place for providing the enough energy to our bikes so as to bear with us on our journey and the hysterical motive for which we have left for and of course to avoid the Murphy's law applicability. But no matter how hard we try to avoid a law , it will always gonna hold . Setting out from there , we were moving in the air of insouciance towards our destination and we were utterly obscure of the fact that some dogged conspiracy was already set in our way which is strong enough to jeopardise our sole purpose of the journey .
After around 1 hour of mesmerizing driving , we ended up in our desired place which is truly exemplary of serving our sole purpose . The culmination of gruesome conspiracy had yet to show it's exacerbating capability. By then we were on the brink of performing the nonchalance sole motive. Prior to our 10 km long bike racing competition , we all have accorded the rules to be followed while driving ( although no traffic rules were persistent there ) . It was belying that all the leading army chief were setting the rules for the forthcoming war ( like no war after sunset in antiquity times ) . Then we set out.
Everybody started with their pinnacle speed which the poor bikes could serve without even caring of wear and tear for the vehicles. The lowest speed with which somebody ( well , Me :P ) was driving , was of the order of 105-110 kmph . Then to our utter surprise , we were out of fuel in three bikes :( . The obnoxious cunningness was shown by the worker at the petrol pump , who had deceitfully taken the money from us and didn't put anything in return because we were too busy discussing about the accident. Fortunately in my bike , there was already enough fuel , so we managed to get the fuel out of my bike into the other one . We kept the rest of the two bikes in some bushes beside the road surreptiously and headed towards the city on the remaining two bikes maintaining somewhat constant velocity so as to minimize the work done against frictional force and following Newton's law of inertia.
Then murphy's law comes in handy and as "something bad started happening and something can possibly go wrong now and thus it will and in the best possible manner. "
We were maintaining the speed of 50-60 and then in a spur of the moment i applied the break too hard as there was a "pig" on the road who didn't move aside inspite of perpetual horn which i was making . Inspite of my brakes , the front tyre hit the undesired creature and that resulted into a deteriorating situation when we slipped . Albeit we were not hapless enough to go into oblivion , yet we crumbled down to touch the feet of our beloved mother " earth "which we find occasionally . Yet I would say that the inherent property of an animal is what that makes it , what it is . It was this day when truly i appreciated the understanding amidst homo-sapiens and why animals are treated differently from human being . If even this small asinine creature can't leave its inherent properties then why should an intelligent homo-sapien ?
We approached to city after the gruesome riding and bought enough fuels to get there but by then we almost unaware of the exact location where we had secretly hidden our two bikes because the place was quite akin in looks from all sides and it was spread up to long distances. We were like WTF !!! who has tagged us as the so called bright students in leading research instituions in india . Even Murphy didn't even possibily think that his law can go to such drastic situation leading to such dire repercussions and screwing even the sharp brain of the country .
Finally the same creature who was the crucial elements in aggravating us , came to our rescue and we went to the way from where it was coming . Finally , we have found our bikes , brought them into the real world and drove back to jaipur in 1 hour .
We were in the city now but Murphy didn't let us go to home even then . Then comes a situation which haunted me the most and the incident which probably i won't forget till INT_MAX number of years. I will describe this in my next post.
