This has long been something I do, frequently! And I just found out that they have studied resistentialism, the seemingly spiteful or hostile behavior manifested by inanimate objects!!
http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/report/clatri.htm
http://people.smu.edu/eheise/Resistentialism.htm
"Resistentialism has long been used in our family to explain the
inexplicable: Why light switches, fixed in place in daylight hours,
elude groping hands in darkness. Why shoestrings break when we are
in a hurry... The explanation for these and many more daily
occurrences is that there is no such thing as an inanimate object.
Seemingly inanimate objects actually resist those they are intended
to serve."
Myron A. Marty; Hostile Inanimate Objects Have Their Murphy's Law;
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); Sep 15, 1996.
"Reports of resistentialism abound in ephemeral literature as well.
The Peter Tamony Collection at the University of Missouri, Columbia,
contains dozens of newspaper clippings documenting the phenomenon ...
Among Tamony's clippings is a story about a lady in London whose
telephone rang every time she tried to take a bath. No matter what
time she drew the bath, day or night, the phone always rang -- and
when she'd answer it, nobody was there. Things eventually got so bad
that she stopped bathing altogether, which prompted her husband to
investigate the problem pronto... In the great scheme of things (think
about that one!), Jennings tells us, we are no-Thing, and Things always
win."
Charles Harrington Elster; Resistentialism: Things Are Against Us
(Including Our Own Words); New York Times Magazine; Sep 21, 2003.
http://wordsmith.org/words/resistentialism.html
I think I will look into this theory!!
