whilst my wife claims that childbirth is painful, personally I don't think it can come close to the pain of standing on a plug in the middle of the night
Cables, wires, straps etc always get caught or snagged on something (feet, door handles ...) yet if you're trying to hook a line over something deliberately, it's impossible.
Given a choice of queues to join in shop you will always end up in the one which takes you the longest time to reach the checkout.
… and if you change queues to join the shorter one which seemed to be moving much faster, it will instantly come to a grinding halt and the one you left will overtake it.