If you are on your way somewhere and it’s raining slightly, and you are not wearing clothing suitable for heavy rain; no matter how long the journey is; about two minutes before you reach your sheltered destination the rain will get heavier and you’ll arrive at your destination uncomfortably wet.
If you have a hood attached to your clothing and you put it over your head for the light rain period, the light rain will immediately stop, but you won’t be able to tell, so you’ll look foolish wearing your hood in the not-rain.
Putting up your hood for the last two minutes won’t cancel out the first part of this Law. It is only capable of invalidating the second.
If your car has an electrical issue wherein once the wipers are on they may or may not turn off again, and you wait until you’re sure it’s raining hard before you turn them on so you don’t look stupid driving with wipers on and no rain, it will immediately stop raining.
If you are riding a motorcycle and it starts to rain, it will continue raining until you find a dry place to pull over and put on your raingear. Once you have put on your raingear and continue on your journey, it will stop raining completely before you have gone 5 miles.
Even when you wait for all the leaves on your trees to fall, after you rake your yard there will be a storm to blow the leaves from you neighbor’s tree into your yard.
So . . . it’s the same principle as unpaired socks. Except that when the missing sock travels to the alternate universe, if it comes back at all, it’s in the form of a wire coat hanger.
I guess being able to traverse universes makes finding your way out of a room just too mundane to contemplate. That’s good, because I have a rolled up newspaper I’d like it to contemplate instead.
And one I’ve just witnessed (to remind me of the law)…
Cats will only drink water if it’s in a normal ‘human’ glass, that requires the cat to put its whole head in the glass. If you see this and try to give the cat some water in a bowl or saucer. the cat will ignore it.
If enough people buy snowplows and snow-blowers, there will not be another winter with large amounts of snow until at least 75% of those machines have rusted out from disuse.
No matter how little your dog barks, and how little you talk on the phone, there’s a pretty good chance that when you get a phone call that the dog will get a random case of “I think there’s maybe something outside that I need to bark at.”