Some are simple. Like why if you decide to put a lid on a pot of beans to make it boil faster, it will inevitably boil over at the exact moment you've stepped away from the stove and can't hear the pot boiling over and by the time you think to question the strange smell you have a good half hour of scrubbing ahead of you? (Answer: Murphy's Law.)
Some are more difficult. Like why are we here? Why is the sky blue? Where exactly does the other sock go? There are many opinions, but much argument on the particulars.
Then there are the questions that just like to tease you. You know there's a solution, but it always takes you a while to work out that solution. It's a bit awkward, a bit annoying, and you know it works, you just wish there were a simpler way of doing it.
One day, you'll suddenly look at the problem slightly differently, and the obvious, easy answer will jump up, grab you by the collar, smack you around, and insist that your university degree isn't worth the paper it was printed on.
I'm very familiar with that last one today.
It is why, after years of using Google and Wikipedia to work it out, I now know that I can figure out which order the Harry Potter DVDs should be played in by looking at the spine and reading the school year the movie is set in that the publisher has nicely printed there.
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