Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 8)

In a three-story building served by one elevator, nine times out of ten the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.

When you're not in a hurry, the traffic light will turn green as soon as your vehicle comes to a complete stop.

There is always an easier way to do it.
Corollary: When looking directly at the easier way, especially for long periods, you will not see it.

If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.

A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.

The life expectancy of a house plant varies inversely with its price and directly with its ugliness.

If you find something you like buy a lifetime supply – they’re going to stop making it.

Wear the right costume and the part plays itself.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

No matter how many beautifully crafted, near-to-perfection baked goods you crank out on a regular basis, the moment one such item becomes required in some official capacity, it will flop.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Never, ever, fly on the airline of the country from which you are departing.

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly.

If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.

It's always the wrong time of the month.

1. Never be first 2. Never be last 3. Never volunteer for anything.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Murphy’s Law only fails when you try to demonstrate it.