Author: Anonymous Murphy’s Law

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

It will always break just when you need it the most.

There is always a way… and it usually doesn’t work.

The mud that won’t come off on the doormat immediately adheres to the carpet.

Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.

When you wear new shoes for the first time, everyone will step on them.

If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver’s side of your car windshield.

If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

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).

If your action has a 50% possibility of being correct, you will be wrong 75% of the time.

Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

No matter how hard you try, every once in a while, something is going right.

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.

Mother nature is a bitch.

The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the bread.

The worst golf shots always occur when playing with someone you are trying to impress.