Author: Anonymous Murphy’s Law

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

It will always break just when you need it the most.

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.

No matter how hard you try, every once in a while, something is going right.

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

The mud that won’t come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.

Mother nature is a bitch.

The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.

There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.

Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.

The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.

The ideal resume will turn up one day after the position is filled.

When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.