Murphy's Law Examples

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool"

- Silvermoon's law

Now, we go on to the really nice examples. Mind you, all these are plagiarized DIRECTLY from here

• A slice of buttered bread, when dropped, will always land butter-side down.
• When you need an item that is in a heap, it will always be the one at the bottom.
• Buses take ages to arrive, but when they do they always arrive in sets of three (in Britain "you wait ages for a bus, then two come along at once!"). There actually is a logical explanation for this: the first bus is slowed down because of the time needed to let passengers get on and off. The subsequent busses are (typically) not allowed to pass the first bus, so you tend to end up with a full bus followed by a line of empty ones.
• The day you forget your umbrella, it pours with rain.
• When graphing, the graph paper is always one square too small for the perfect scale.
• When caught in a traffic jam, the lane that you are in will always be the slowest to move. (This joke was played out in the opening sequence of the film Office Space, where one of the main characters changed lanes multiple times, all in vain as the traffic around him moved - to really drive home the concept, an elderly man with a walker was shown dramatically outpacing our protagonist.)
• Nothing is as easy as it looks.
• Everything takes longer than you think. Or, everything takes twice as long as it should; excepting that which appears easy, taking three times as long.
• Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
• If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
• If something simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
• If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
• Every solution breeds new problems.
• All small objects of value will disappear when set down.
• Magellan's Allegory: If you stop and ask someone for directions, and they tell you "You can't miss it"... then be assured that you will.
• If you make it idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot.
• When you put your pants on without looking — they will always be on backwards.
• A series of events will go wrong in the most negative sequence.
• Airline Travel Variation: The time you have to catch a flight is inversely proportional to the distance to the gate.
• 50/50/90-If there is a 50/50 chance to get it right, there is a 90% chance that you will get it wrong.
• The day you forget to bring your calculator to Math or Science class, there will be a quiz or test that requires one.
• A train/bus/plane will be late, unless you are late and need the delay to make it on board.

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