I'd go for a compromise - when anything can go right it will - just when you want it to go wrong.

Fortunately it doesn't always work that way.

Example going up to Blackpool for the Fylde Folk Festival a couple of weeks ago the Virgin Rail train pulled in to Preston 20 minutes late. (As they tend to now the system has been broken up and flogged off to incompetents with money.)

Which meant that I had missed my connection and would have to wait for hours. Except that when I got to the patform I found that the connection was late as well, and I just caught it.