Half of the crap that we experience here is due to self-fulfilling prophecy.
Somebody says something in jest, a new team crafts a story, or some guy at the
water cooler has a theory and all of a sudden, we create the same situation that was mentioned. Someone mentions a fuel shortage and everybody runs out and fills up every SUV, car, boat, weed wacker, and go cart they have and... oh look here... A SHORTAGE.
Well lookie here Ma, we gots ourselves one uh dem der shortages jus like em smart guys in da news said we wuld.
Gotta love it.