Murphy’s law:

“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”

The well-known statement of Murphy’s Law turns out to be a corruption of its original formulation: “If there’s a wrong way to do a thing, somebody will find it and do it that way.”

Amusing corollaries of Murphy’s Law:

• Two wrongs are only the beginning.
• If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
• Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
• He who hesitates is probably right.
• If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.
  
• A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
  
• The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the bread.
  
• The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.
  
• When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear. When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.
  
• The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.
  
• If it says “one size fits all,” it doesn’t fit anyone.
  
• The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.
  
• Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.
  
• The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
  
• Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
  
• On a bicycle, no matter which way you wish to go, it’s uphill and against the wind.
  
• Work is accomplished by those employees who have yet to reach their level of incompetence.
  
• As soon as the stewardess serves the coffee, the airline encounters turbulence.
  
• When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible.
  
• The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.