Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 84)

If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.

Much work, much food; little work, little food; no work, burial at sea.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

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

A lone dime always gets the number nearly right.

A biscuit takes up moisture when it goes stale and becomes limp; a cake loses moisture and becomes hard.

If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

You cannot tell for certain, ahead of time, which side of the bread to put the butter on.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

One and one does not necessarily make 11.

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

The one who snores will fall asleep first.

Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.

No man ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

There is no such thing as an unattached woman.

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.

The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.