CS folks love to make analogies

[bigpeteb]

Prof: "If there's a four-way stop out in the middle of nowhere, you can probably go through it with your horn blaring and be okay, so long as you're the only one doing so."

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[blackdragon7777]

I just used this analogy at work today to justify why I'm making something thread safe when the likelyhood of an issue is extremely low!