You are right, but since we are talking globally here, I would imagine that it would be a pretty stable bell curve. Plus, I wasn't being as much literal about the curve as much as I was being anecdotal - and somewhat glib - about my experiences.

>Renoir, I suppose you already know that some statistical distributions conform to the Bell curve, and others not?
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>>I spend much of my time it seems, dropping things, trying to get hardware on my PC to work, waiting at lights where I've just missed the yellow, spilling something on my suit just before a meeting, getting disconnected after waiting 30 minutes to talk to customer service, finding out that the 40% coupon at Best Buy expired yesterday, etc. Small stuff to be sure, and probably puts me somewhere in the middle-left of the Bell Curve of Life. This implies to me, that somewhere there is the Anti-Jay who goes through their day with hardly any quiet-desperation moments like dropping the car keys (again) and watching them bounce off the deck rail into the (full) trash can. My money is on Jimmy Buffet being that person, but statistically, there must be someone out there like that. Right? What about the extremes? The poor shmuck at the far left has a painful, horrible life from the start, so there must be someone at the other end who's life is complete bliss at every moment.
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>>This is all a result of trying for weeks to access my work PC through my company account using dial-up. First the SecureID and PIN did not work. Then the dial-up number was wrong. Then PCAnywhere wasn't configured correctly. Then the local IP addresses were changed. Then the host settings for PCAnywhere were not configured correctly. Then the laptop battery went dead. Then this morning, I have a problem with my phone line and couldn't dial out.
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>>Somewhere, there is a guy who connected the first night he took the PC home and tried to dial in. I hate that guy.