Dumbass Sayings: “A Watched Pot Never Boils”

A watched vaporizer never
fills with smoke.

Everyone knows this saying is a load of horsecrap. It’s clearly exaggerated. Of course a watched pot will boil as long as you have heat under it. A watched pot can even boil WITHOUT heat as long as you’re Cyclops from the X-Men.

A more truthful saying would be “A watched person never dies”. You know how you can wish injury or death on someone you really hate? It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. What if you were living during World War II? A lot of people wanted Hitler to die, but he wasn’t going to on his own. If a man kills your family and you want him to die you can wish it and think it 24 hours a day, but what are the odds he’s going to die right then? If he did people would think you had magic powers. I can go boil a pot of water right now and watch it the whole time, but killing someone by watching them? If looks could kill…