Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 3)

More dirt comes out of a hole than you can get back into it.

When the need arises, the tool or object closest to you becomes a hammer.

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

1 + 1 hardly ever equals 2.

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf.

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

If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.

In any group of eagles, you will find some turkeys.

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.

The amount of junk is in direct proportion to the amount of space available.

There's no special reason; it's just government policy.

Only at the start/re-start of a DIY job do you realise the need to return to your toolbox/shed to retrieve another tool.

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.

Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.

When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the world is composed of vinyl, naugahyde and aluminum.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.