"If you buy just one of something, you will surely break it almost immediately, but if you buy one or more "spare" items to have "just in case", your "initial" item will miraculously escape damage no matter how many mishaps you endure, and thus those duplicate items will merely gather dust in the garage or at the back of your desk-drawer."
I have always tried to handle objects gently and carefully, but due to extreme forgetfulness and physical/mental/emotional infirmities, I tend to "be rough on my stuff" --- sitting/stepping on unobserved items, blundering into objects as I'm groggily stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night, soiling items or spilling/dropping stuff, etc., and so I occasionally attempt to "prepare for the future" by acquiring spares of the types of items which I typically seem to damage or break; only prob is that just as soon as I do "lay in for a rainy day" like that, the "currently-being-used" object that I had been procuring said spares for NEVER SEEMS TO ACTUALLY SUSTAIN SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, and so all of those extras that I'd carefully tucked away just "sit there for decades"... talk about a classic case of "Murphy's Law of Spares"!
by QuacksO November 23, 2018
Get the Murphy's Law of Sparesmug. by FanOfWalls June 26, 2024
Get the Spare Tiremug. the friend that you bring with you to a hangout as a "third wheel" when you're unsure if the hangout is platonic or romantic in nature.
"This guy asked me to hangout but I don't know if he meant it as a date. I need you to be my spare tire so it's clear we're just friends." "Can you be my spare tire?"
by tunasub_backwards February 6, 2022
Get the spare tiremug. The feeling you experience after large throat irritation. Usually brought on by heart burn but could be felt after giving amazing head.
by Tonibaloni April 3, 2021
Get the Spare throatmug. Sparing Chin or asking to Spare Some Chin is the act of two Bros touching chin to chin as a way to form a stronger bro bond. If the act is done correctly it should resemble a kiss. But No Homo.
by LonelyCatLover55 August 31, 2019
Get the Spare Some Chinmug. An extension of the Third wheel. A person who is in a room full of people who are either occupied by, or attained to the opposite sex. Usually tagged along as a "Spare tire," while couples or touchy friends cuddle during a movie, gala, event.
by Mrfantastic September 14, 2013
Get the spare tire datemug. This is the person in your life who you are just friends with, but they are not in the friend zone. You spend a lot of time together. You wouldn’t even say you’re in the talking stage, a platonic friendship but you are pretty sure both of you could maybe see it being more, but neither person is willing to cross the line to make it more than just a friendship. But you always know in the back of your head that they are an option. Like a spare tire… you know they are there but aren’t gonna use it if you don’t need to
Person 1 “hey are you an Andy a thing?”
Person 2 “no not really, he’s just my spare right now, but maybe that will change”
Person 2 “no not really, he’s just my spare right now, but maybe that will change”
by Papafritarach August 18, 2021
Get the Sparemug.