Originally Posted by datlas

I am riding with my friends today, but it’s my on-call weekend so inevitably I am going to get paged on the ride and have to stop to put out the fire and let my friends go. My hope is I will be able to get in at least an hour with them, but it’s impossible to predict.

I tell my friends that being on call is a great example of the vagaries of the Poisson distribution, but they roll their eyes and think I am crazy. They might be right.