Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 29)

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Nothing with a plug on it, nothing worn directly next to the skin, no clothing that will turn out to be too small rather than too big, and nothing that you actually want for yourself and are trying to disguise as a gift.

Men Murphy’s Laws People Things Women

A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws

The sun always rises in the baby's bedroom window.

Children Murphy’s Laws Situations

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Money Murphy’s Laws Things

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Murphy’s Laws Time

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Other people’s tools work only in other people’s yards. 2. Fancy gizmos don’t work. 3. If nobody uses it, there’s a reason. 4. You get the most of what you need the least.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything depends.

Murphy’s Laws

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Murphy’s Laws

If things were left to chance, they'd be better.

Murphy’s Laws

The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.

Murphy’s Laws Time

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).

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.

Body Fat Murphy’s Laws

No man is a hero to his valet.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

The guy you beat out of a prime parking space is the one you have to see for a job interview.

Murphy’s Laws

Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

Education Murphy’s Laws School

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Things

A man should be greater than some of his parts.

Murphy’s Laws People

A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down).

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Things