This troper uses the phrase "What Could ''Possibly'' Go Wrong" frequently, because he likes to mess with people. In a trip to Canada he once took, there was about a 1:1 ratio of times that was said to Things Gone Wrong. Recently, he put a list of "Phrases from ''CodeGeass'' I could use in place of WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" as his {{Facebook}} status. Unfortunately, he failed to consider that this would, itself, be construed as TemptingFate. This led, subsequently, to exactly what you might imagine. so it was only my hand and only a little bit.

This troper and his partner for an Oral Presentation had both forgotten what was the date their assignment was due. This troper just so happened to say during one lesson: "It'd be real funny if it turned out our presentation was due today." This troper should have kept his mouth shut.

This troper was his school's mascot for a large inter-collegiate academic competition held annually. The last time he participated, the weather turned out to be unseasonably warm, and the costume (a buffalo) got rather much to bear. He was repeatedly ducking aside during the opening ceremonies to grab a quick breath of air without the stifling helmet/mask thing over his head. A friend told him that things could be worse... it could've been raining. Cue the precipitation 10 minutes later.

{{Smerf}}: I was driving in the snow one winter night and decided to see how my truck reacted to losing losing traction. Not too bad, actually. Then I tried it again... Now I know how to replace a fender.

This Troper works in theater. When my wife calls and asks how the show is going the most positive answer I've ever given was "Nothing is on fire. Yet." We know this trope and respect it's power.

TemptingFate is probably this troper's superpower. Most of the time when I point at something good it ends up turning bad. Or I just make a comment and it ends up coming true. I swear, I think I tempted fate about what would happen to TheBeatles songs that MichaelJackson owned when he passes... a week before he died.

This is what I do every time I visit Guy With the Glasses}} Nostie's site: tempt fate. I just click on the videos and hope that THEY won't get referenced in any way. This gets worse with videos that contain either disgusting fat people, or "mind fucks".

''Nostie''?

In a Meta game on the MSPaintAdventures forums, my character, Jessy, puts on a dead player's cape while in some water. It makes her almost invincible... and then immediately after she got eaten by a fish with only her gold medal remaining.

This troper was just watching a game of football/soccer with his father, and he commented that the underdogs weren't that bad, and that his father should have taken out a bet on them. Barely 10 seconds later, the underdogs got scored against. Much heckling was had at my expense.

In my GenreSavvy {{Nakama}} saying "What's the worst that could happen?" is a Gibbs Slappable offense.

I was playing competitive Tetris, and winning. Constantly. When my streak hit 20 wins, I shouted "I'M INVINCIBLE!!!". Next player's screen name? KingArthur.

A pretty minor case, but the timing of it was kind of amusing: A balloon had somehow drifted into our back yard, my mom decided to give it to our dog to play with. After a few minutes of him happily bouncing the balloon around with his nose... #QUOTE#'''Mom:''' This is lasting surprisingly long, I thought he would have popped it by now... #QUOTE#'''Me:''' Well, now you might be tempting fa- #QUOTE#(the dog chooses that exact moment to swat at the balloon with his paw and pops it).

In a less inconvenient version of this trope, This Troper was was popping in and out of a room in which the Super Bowl was playing, and mused on what the troper dubbed "The Wile E. Coyote clothesline manoeuver". That is, if a player's feet, hands, and the ball enter the end zone, where the player still has a grip on the ball, but no other body part has actually entered the end zone before the player hits the ground (named because it would usually look like Wile E. Coyote getting clotheslined). "Well, it's not like we'll get an answer on such an unlikely occurence any time soon." As this was the February 2010 Superbowl, guess what happened an hour or so later.

"This water really isn't so bad—" On a previous visit to Florida, this lurker had found that the tap water tasted like sulfur. The next time she visited the state, she warned all her fellow tourists not to drink it. After they ran out of bottled water, she made the above speech and then almost choked.

Amazingly, this troper tempts fate almost everyday and still nothing bad has happened. If only the same could be said about his dice rolling...

In my house there are sensors that I heard zap when touched, but it makes me wanna do it so bad to see if its true.

This troper went to Jerusalem, and thoroughly enjoyed his trip, but one thing he noticed amongst the local population made him highly uneasy. It seemed that the most popular Eid gift for Palestinian boys aged about 6 to 13 were highly realistic-looking airsoft guns. Many of these kids also spent a lot of time running around the Old City, around which are stationed some heavily armed(with real weapons) Israeli soldiers and police, and having pretend battles with their new guns. He hasn't heard of anything happening yet, but he thinks that this will end badly.

This troper was watching his friend play ''{{DJMAX}} Technika''[='=]s Randomizer set, which randomly selects four different songs to play. As said friend was playing "Shoreline", I joked that the next song would be "Para Q"...and the next stage turned out to be "Para Q".

This Troper was once playing dodge ball one day, and his team was losing badly. He immedidately said, "How could this get any worse." Cue groin attack by dodge ball and ClusterFBomb.

This troper might hear someone saying "A cinch, just a walk in the park!" But, this troper thought that saying would apply to a morning stroll on Rotorua, New Zealand - turned out that it was a InvertedTrope in that case, not due to any muggers like in Central Park, but due to dangerous mud pools that are only a few seismic events short of turning into part of the whole damn park becoming a big lake of molten rock - apparently causing the paths there to change every so often as certain areas are ''literally cordoned off by the local authorities'' because of pools of volcanic mud (not as bad as lava obviously, but you don't want to stick your feet in it regardless of footwear - fortunately only finding out the easy way). Rotorua is still a nice town and despite the odour this troper would like to go back there - hopefully it'll be as safe and pretty as last time and not a case of the local geology suddenly getting a bad temper while he is there...

This troper wrote a research paper for her Geography class saying that offshore oil drilling has gotten safer. I turned it in on April 16. Guess what happened 4 days later. *smacks head on desk.*

BP themselves have you beat. There was a party on the rig congratulating the team on a perfect safety record to date when the explosion happened.

Tomorrow I am going to tempt fate all day in the most insulting, and audacious ways possible. I'll come back on saturday and tell you about it if I'm alive.

GoodNightSweetPrince.

This troper once tried to a take a girl apple picking. The girl he was taking hates cars and refuses to get her driver's license, despite being 20. In the days before the apple picking, she made him promise to drive perfectly safe when she was in the car, and this troper swore up and down that he would drive safely and do nothing to put her at risk while he was behind the wheel. The big day came and the troper picked up the girl at the train station, and they got miserably lost before the troper decided to ask for directions at the next gas station. While crossing traffic, the troper's car smacked into a car coming in the opposite direction. If that wasn't enough, the apple orchard was never found. Quoth the troper: "The directions look easy, we should get there no problem."

"Apple picking". Never heard it called that before.

While in our residence hall room, my roommate was heating something in the microwave. After a few minutes, there was a burnt smell. She pulled out a plate of smoking food and worried that the smoke detector would notice. Since in my experience, they need to be surrounded by a lot of smoke and there wasn't that much here, I said, "Don't worry, the fire alarm probably won't go off." A few seconds later, it did. Everyone in the building had to evacuate, some barefoot and in pajamas.

Warning: this post contains HighOctaneNightmareFuel. In 1994, this troper and her brother as kids were on vacation in a big city. One day we went on a tour with other tourists. He, being a budding salaryman even as a child, points at a big building and asks his big sis if she would ever like to work there (as he clearly would have). By that time she knew she wanted nothing to do with such cubicle farms, and thus felt the need to tell him in a manner so that he would not continue to press the issue. Her response was, "No, I'd be too afraid of a plane crashing in to it". Teenagers by then, before school one Tuesday morning in 2001, her same brother told her to turn on the TV on any news channel, and precisely that happened.

When this Troper was in high school, there was a time when her dad came down with a horrible stomach virus. During this time, he kept vomiting, could barely eat, and was in pain most of the time. It passed after two days, and he told Troper's mother that he was glad none of his children had gotten it too...ten seconds before they received a phone-call from the school, saying that Troper had complained of stomach pain all that morning and had suddenly began vomiting.

I was playing ''{{BlazBlue}}'' online to kill some time a few months ago. I had won five matches in a row, including one ''perfect match''. Questioning whether I wanted to keep playing, I just said, "Screw it, I'll play until I lose.". I lost the very next match.

This troper was on his second to last day in Iraq. it was originally to be his very last day in a long deployment, but sandstorms conspired against my group. The leader of my group was complaining about the fact. I calmly replied that it could be worse. "How so, Troper?" I thought for a minute and replied: "We could be cowering in a bunker on the flight line, listening to incoming rockets or mortars, for one..." Fast forward 24 hours. We're sitting on the flight line, waiting for our helicopter to arrive. The incoming-fire alarm starts going off and we start scrambling for a bunker to cower in, while we hear the enemy rockets coming in and hitting the base. Once we make it inside and my group is accounted for, I start laughing. All that was said was a sturdy "Fuck you, Troper, you're not allowed to make any predictions anymore." from my group leader. At least the other people we were sharing the bunker with got a good laugh. That was not the first time I'd tempted fate, but it was probably the most memorable.

Whilst playing ''Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!'' I beat the third-to-final stage after over 40 deaths, and said to myself, "''Finally!'' Jeez, the boss better not be Darth Moab or something."

This troper's school unveiled a "Master Plan" for a campus wide renovation. 3 years later the renovation fund is empty, half of the planned buildings are built, and only half of those are finished on the inside.

This troper's dad came home with an interesting story today. He works at a bank and analyzes and does some other stuff. Every morning he and a few others have to check what happened during the night. One of his friends came in during work at around 7:45 and got the question: "has anything happened?" He answered: "No, not really, not any natural disasters exactly." 7:50 came the report that Japan has been struck by an earthquake.

This troper was playing a game of SplitSecond. Yes, the game that throws planes and what not at you whilst driving. On a track, I was thinking out loud, hoping that the AI would not throw the cruise liner at me. Guess what they end up doing...

This troper did it with "The Letter". Let's just say she wrote a not-so nice letter to someone as a joke. While she was writing it, she KNEW that she was tempting fate. Yep, fate bit her on the ass for it.