Author: Anonymous Murphy’s Law

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

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail

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

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

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.

Mother nature is a bitch.

A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) – or into the garbage disposal while it is running.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.

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.

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

When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.

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

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