Related:

• O'Brien's Variation on Etorre's Observation: If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.
• The other lines move faster. -- Ettore's Observation If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
  -- O'Brien's Variation on Ettore's Observation Switching back screws up both lines and makes everybody angry....
• The other line moves faster. This applies to all lines- bank, supermarket, tollbooth, customs, and so on.
  And don't try to change lines. The Other Line- the one you were in originally- will then move faster....
• One of these days now, just you wait and see!
• Marge: [ruefully] We've left it all behind. How can you make a clean break with your life?
  Homer: Relax, Marge, I tied up all the loose ends before we left....
• Hardin's Law: You can never do just one thing.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you check your email more often than your paper mail, and you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
• Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.