Author: Anonymous Murphy’s Law

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.

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

Mother nature is a bitch.

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

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

Chaos always wins, because it’s better organized.

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

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