Mahesh's Sixth Law - If you need to convince yourself, Something Is Wrong

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If you suspect that there is something wrong, but then proceed to convince yourself that everything is OK, then there actually *is* something wrong.

 Corollary
Its probably *much* worse than Just Wrong.

Corollary 2
If you think its somebody else's problem, its probably not, and it almost certainly is actually yours. 

Hmmm, is that something burning? From the stove area? Where I was just making myself breakfast?

Naah. Probably not. 
I did char the bacon (mmm. bacony goodness) slightly. Probably just that.

I should get up and go take a look.
 Just play safe.

But, but, but, I'm comfy, there is a particulary interesting commercial on TV, and my dog has her head on my feet.

Besides, it probably really is the charred bacon. Yeah, thats it.

But I don't usually char bacon. I'm pretty good at bacon (mmm. bacony goodness).

Nah, theres a first time for everything. And this is my first date with the Char of Bacon.

I guess i'll ignore the burning smell.

0 points if you believe that there was nothing wrong.
2 points if you believe that I did char the bacon,
5 points if you believe that I forgot to turn off the stove, and the frying pan is now a bubbling mass of copper and steel
25 points if you figured out that the dryer had shorted out, and was slowly turning the towels into buckytubes...

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