Ever have one of those days when nothing goes right? I had a
couple of those recently beginning with Friday the 13th.
I will never admit to being superstitious, but sometimes there’s
no other explanation. Friday the 13th found me with a lot of stuff
to do and it beat me up with more interruptions than I ever thought possible. I
was not only spinning my wheels that day, I was kicking up gravel.
That was followed by another day of two power outages,
several computer glitches, a looming deadline and absolutely no patience left.
It was a Murphy’s Law kind of day. You know Murphy’s Law: If
anything can go wrong, it will.
There are many variations of Murphy’s Law, as evidenced by the
fact that there’s a web site called Murphy’s Law.com. Murphy has diversified some:
It is impossible to
make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
If anything simply
cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
A falling object
will always land where it can do the most damage.
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 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.
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.
The greater the
value of the rug, the greater the probability that the cat will throw up on it.
After you bought a
replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find
the original.
No matter how long
or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale
somewhere cheaper.
If you fool around
with a thing for very long you will screw it up.
In any hierarchy,
each individual rises to his own level of incompetence and then remains there.
Never argue with a
fool, people might not know the difference.
Whatever hits the
fan will not be evenly distributed.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Those who know the
least will always know it the loudest.
The probability of
being observed is in direct proportion to the stupidity of ones actions
A knowledge of
Murphy's Law is no help in any situation. If you make it through a Murphy Day,
you win!
Murphy certainly
gets around and messes things up. My favorite law, however, is Cole’s law.
Shredded cabbage.
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