"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. 1) Both a strike and a spare in one frame
2) When in bowling, your first ball is a gutter and your second ball knocks down all of the pins.
2) When in bowling, your first ball is a gutter and your second ball knocks down all of the pins.
by ProBowler77 March 4, 2019
Get the strike-sparemug. In bowling: when the ball goes into the gutter on the first roll of the frame, but then knocks down all pins on the second try.
Your strikes are backward! You’ll never improve your score if you keep throwing gutter spares back to back!
by AXEWAVE_ April 30, 2022
Get the Gutter sparemug.