{"id":28,"date":"2008-09-19T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:20:16","slug":"murphys-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?page_id=28","title":{"rendered":"Murphy&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><figure id=\"attachment_15\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/murphys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-full\" title=\"Murphy's Law\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/murphys.jpg\" alt=\"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong\" width=\"525\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ol>Interchangeable parts &#8211; won&#8217;t.<\/ol>\n<ol>Leakproof seals &#8212; will.<\/ol>\n<ol>Self-starters &#8212; won&#8217;t.<\/ol>\n<ol>If you try to please everyone, nobody will like you.<\/ol>\n<ol>A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.<\/ol>\n<ol>Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.<\/ol>\n<ol>Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.<\/ol>\n<ol>In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don&#8217;t need it.<\/ol>\n<ol>The chance of a piece of bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the price of the carpet.<\/ol>\n<ol>Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost more than you thought.<\/ol>\n<ol>If it jams- force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.<\/ol>\n<ol>If you fool around with a thing for very long, you will screw it up.<\/ol>\n<ol>Any tool dropped while repairing a car will roll underneath to the exact center.<\/ol>\n<ol>When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly.<\/ol>\n<ol>A repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.<\/ol>\n<ol>No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you&#8217;ve bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.<\/ol>\n<ol>You will always find something in the last place you look.<\/ol>\n<ol>The other line always moves faster.<\/ol>\n<ol>Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.<\/ol>\n<ol>You will remember that you forgot to take out the trash when the garbage truck is two doors away.<\/ol>\n<ol>If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.<\/ol>\n<ol>The minute you get interested in someone is the minute they find someone else.<\/ol>\n<ol>Nothing is as easy as it looks.<\/ol>\n<ol>Everything takes longer than you think.<\/ol>\n<ol>Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.<\/ol>\n<ol>It there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: if there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen at then.<\/ol>\n<ol>If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.<\/ol>\n<ol>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.<\/ol>\n<ol>Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.<\/ol>\n<ol>If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.<\/ol>\n<ol>Mother Nature is a bitch.<\/ol>\n<ol>It is impossible to make anything fool-proof because fools are so ingenious.<\/ol>\n<ol>Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.<\/ol>\n<ol>Every solution breeds new problems.<\/ol>\n<ol>All warranties expire upon payment of invoice.<\/ol>\n<ol>There is always one more bug.<\/ol>\n<ol>A bird in the hand is better than one overhead.<\/ol>\n<ol>Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.<\/ol>\n<ol>If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault.<\/ol>\n<ol>Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone.<\/ol>\n<ol>In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.<\/ol>\n<ol>Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.<\/ol>\n<ol>There&#8217;s never time to do it right, but there&#8217;s always time to do it over.<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smile...tomorrow will be worse!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interchangeable parts &#8211; won&#8217;t. Leakproof seals &#8212; will. Self-starters &#8212; won&#8217;t. If you try to please everyone, nobody will like you. A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work. 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