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Murphy's Law of Intersections 

"You can 'watch 'n' observe' as carefully as you please while driving and you will still miss your turn-off, and so no amount of continued 'Oh, I'm sure it's just around the next curve" tootling further down the road will bring you to it. But if you do actually decide to turn around and go back to see if you did inadvertently pass your desired intersection, it will of course NOT be 'back there', and you will subsequently find out that you'd been within just a few hundred yards of it at the point when you'd turned around, and so you simply wasted gas and time by backtracking; it had indeed been 'just around the next corner', and so you'd have reached it the first time if you simply hadn't been so gol-durned impatient."
I missed my turn-off during a road-trip because I was carefully watching out for traffic and thus never noticed the side-road I wanted --- classic case of Murphy's Law of Intersections!
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Dog-leg intersection 

A dog-leg intersection is one witch the streets do not match up. The intersection causes one to make two turns instead of going strait to stay on the same road.
At the dog-leg intersection turn left then right to continue on Oak Street.
Dog-leg intersection by anonymous September 14, 2020

First through the intersection 

When the light turns green and you gun it to be first in to the intersection. Then a car runs a red light and t-bones your car on the passenger side.
Hey let that clown be first through the intersection. Then go.

Free Birding an Intersection 

When a driver accelerates through a yellow light knowing full well that shit will turn red before they get in the intersection. If done properly, the driver will end up running a red light.

Often, passengers will scream "FREE BIIIIIIRD!" for the duration of the intersection.

See also: Pennsylvania Left, Pittsburgh Left
"Dude I nearly died today, some jagoff was Free Birding an Intersection during rushour!"
"No way, was that the 3 car pileup at North and Main?"
"No, that guy was making a Pennsylvania Left."

The Binomial Distribution Intersexual Attractiveness Graph 

Yes! I'm pretty sure I wrote about that! That's exactly how it works!
Iam "Yes. I think I wrote about The Binomial Distribution Intersexual Attractiveness Graph in reference to Kevin Samuels once. He never let women rate themselves a 7 out of 10 (because that's what everyone always choose) and I pointed out that they were doing that because they were CORRECT. The Binomial Distribution Intersex Attractiveness Graph shows that the average man would exist at the peek of the bell curve at a 5 out of 10 and the peek of the female bell curve would make the average woman a 7 out of 10. I was just thinking about that! I can't believe someone else picked that up! Hilarious. I did I draw a graph for that on too? Damn. I wish I had access to all my stuff."

I have Neurosemantical Inversitis

A condition which causes the sufferer to process in an inverted emotional emotional valence, causing friendly and kind actions or words to be perceived as offensive or derogatory while rude or violent language is perceived as innocent and desirable.
Person 1: “ I have Neurosemantical Inversitis.”
Person 2: Ha, fuckin looser
Person 1: Thanks!

At the intersection of Church and State

An intersection which, on constitutional grounds, should not exist.

The terminology implicitly invokes common street names "Church Street" and "State Street" as if they were nominally a small-town street corner, at least ostensibly. In actuality? This is a conceptual stand-in for the constitutional ideal of "the separation of Church and State" being trampled into the ground at the local grass-roots level.
Unfortunate that every two-bit agenda-pusher is trying to plop themselves down at the intersection of Church and State.

Those two roads should never cross as this is where freedom goes to die.