Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 14)

Fuses never blow during daylight hours.
Corollary: Only after fuses blow do you discover the flashlight batteries are dead and you’re out of candles, or matches, or both.

Whatever carrousel you stand by, your baggage will come in on another one.

When you move something to a more logical place, you only can remember where it used to be and your decision to move it.

Fear Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

The cost of the hairdo is directly related to the strength of the wind.

The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

‘Push’ is the force exerted upon the door marked PULL.

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Any product cut to length will be too short.

When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly.

There’s always one more bug.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.

Things hate people.

The child that divides gets last pick.

Where there's a will, there's a won't.

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

If things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.