The unavoidable laws of the universe…
1. WORKSHOP LAW OF BREAD:
When the buttered slice of bread falls it always falls on the buttered side.
2. LAW OF LANES:
If you change lanes, regardless of where you are, the one you just left starts to move faster than the one you are in now.
3. LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose begins to itch.
4. LAW OF THE TOOLS:
Any tool, when dropped, rolls to the least accessible corner.
5. BATH THEOREM:
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
6. LAW OF ENCOUNTERS
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
7. LAW OF THE RESULT
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will!
8. LAW OF BIOMECHANICAL:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
9. LAW OF COFFEE:
As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
10. LAW OF EXAM:
A book will remain in state of rest or covered in dust until exams time.
11. LAW OF SLEEP:
The nap becomes enjoyable when the alarm sounds.
12. LAW OF CHEAPER THINGS
You always find the cheaper item once you have bought the expensive one. OR you find the lost item just after buying an expensive replacement.
I have referred to No. 7 as the Mechanic Effect: When the mechanic gets in the car, the noise goes away.
If something is too good to be true, enjoy it while it lasts.
If you need or want something and find it on sale, even the shortest of time thinking about it will result in finding the sale is over.
The one time you don’t check for paper there isn’t any.
When this happens, you do however have in your wallet an old sales receipt that measures 1″x2″.
You just get into your nap and your wife wakes you up.
Except for 10 and 11, they are corollaries to Murphy’s Law.
I used to commute on the 101 across the San Fernando valley and experienced Law #2 first hand. I was staying in the curb lane and passed a mustang who was lane-hunting to move faster 4 times on one drive. Funny enough I remember it many years later.
Jim, did you see the new CNO is a submariner AND a ROTC grad? The Boat School ring knockers must be livid.
All- Snort…yeah… And yes, they are all corollaries of something else! Rick- Saw that, LOL! Love it!
How many times have I lost a tool only to find it when I have bought a replacement?
One finds the already owned item when one finds a good spot to store the newly purchased one. This may happen more than once…
GB- True, unless it’s a damned disappearing 10mm…sigh