Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 45)

If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

No matter how many good tables are free, you will always be given the worst available.

Wind velocity increases directly with the cost of the hairdo.

The one you want is never the one on sale.

In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.

At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.

All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

It (housework) expands to fill the time available plus half an hour: so obviously it is never finished.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

There are only two problems with people: One is that they don't think; The other is that they do.

Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.

The slowest checker is always at the quick-check-out lane.

When all else fails, try the boss's suggestion.

All pluses have their minuses.

All women marry beneath them.

Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion; bodies at rest tend to remain in bed.

The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose.

In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage.

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

The label "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" means the price went up.