My husband and I deciding to go out and stay out for more than 3 hours will cause it to rain. It has been so since we started dating, which was seven years ago. So now we have enough data to plot graphs and show that the effect is not a coincidence. All we need to do is say, ‘Looks like it’s going to be a sunny weekend. You want to head out somewhere?’ If anybody needs rain badly buy us tickets!

We have also noted that if we decide to cancel an outing because the weather forecast is dismal then it ends up being a good day to have gone out and THAT is far more frustrating.

On a more serious note, some profound ‘Cause and Effect’ relationships I have discovered these past years in books I have read; for your pleasure,

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