The recognizable Murphy’s Law

Has your bus always just left, are you always in the wrong line in the supermarket, are other cars speeding past you in traffic jams, are you always faced with headwind on your bike, does your computer never do what you want and is your life in shambles? of the stupid fits and hopeless bad luck? There is a good chance that this has to do with Murphy’s Law, a set of laws that partly determines your life and against which you cannot do anything.

If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong

“If anything can go wrong, it will” is Murphy’s first law. Everyone knows the phenomenon at checkouts in stores that the other lines always move faster. That you always seem to choose the wrong line on the highway when there are traffic jams, that your train is delayed, but your connection leaves on time, that just when you think you have everything in order, something goes completely wrong again. . And once that chain reaction occurs…

Diffusion of Murphy’s law

This article contains a collection of Murphy’s laws that everyone will recognize, but how did this law come about?
Although there is some controversy over the origins of Murphy’s Law, it is believed to have its origins in Edwards Air Force Base and dates back to 1949. Captain Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who worked on a project that would measure how much sudden force a person would can withstand a crash. This project was the USAF project MX981, the test for human acceleration tolerances. One of the experiments involved a set of 16 accelerometers that had to be attached to different parts of the test subject’s body. This could be done two ways but as expected, the person had glued all the parts on the wrong side. Capt. Murphy then said ,If it could be done wrong, in all probability it would,. The manager kept a list of laws, added them to it and called it Murphy’s Law. The Air Force Base doctor later stated in a press conference that this law had been useful to the researchers in terms of safety. Murphy’s Law appeared in articles and news reports in the months that followed, expanding to include countless variants that have spread like an inkblot across our daily lives. Edward A. Murphy lived from 1918 to 1990 and could not have imagined that his general statement would cause such a stir.

• If you join the other queue, the queue you just left will go faster than the queue you are currently in.
• If you have made canard à l’orange, the visit praises the fried potatoes.
• Never walk down an office hallway without a piece of paper in your hand, or you’ll get extra work from your boss.
• When you drop money at a machine, the pennies fall to you, but the euros are out of sight.
• If something has to become clean, something else will have to become dirty.
• Never ask a hairdresser if you need a haircut.
• The one who does the least work will get the greatest reward.
• When traveling abroad, the exchange rate improves significantly the day after you exchange foreign money.
• If there are only a few parties in a period of a few months, they all take place on the same night.
• A multifunctional kitchen aid will not perform any function properly.

 

• The person who snores will fall asleep first.
• Every time you turn on the radio, you hear the last notes of your favorite song.
• The likelihood of meeting someone you know increases if you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
• Machines that are broken work perfectly when the technician arrives.
• In important letters without errors, mistakes spontaneously arise when they have just been in the mail.
• The most interesting object in a museum is missing its nameplate.
• If you throw something away you will need it the following week.
• No matter which direction you cycle, there is always a headwind.
• When you’re finally on vacation, you get sick.
• If you drop a sandwich with jam, the smeared side will hit the ground.

 

• The bus that just left the bus stop is your bus.
• If you’ve only seen one episode of a TV series and there’s a repeat, that’s the show you already know.
• If your cat has settled into your lap and looks content and adorable, you need to go to the bathroom.
• The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body needs to be on it.
• The slowest cashier is always behind the express checkout.
• The last express bus home leaves two minutes before the end of your working hours.
• Exactly that last piece of apple pie that you wanted to take is ordered by the customer just in front of you.
• What you buy today will be on sale tomorrow.
• Where a fence is not needed it remains standing, but where it is needed most it falls down.
• After you have put together a device with a lot of effort, you will find some parts on the workbench.

 

• A flying object will seek out the nearest eye.
• The mountain gets steeper as you get closer.
• The one who is least interested in a game will win.
• Two cars approaching each other on a deserted road will actually pass each other on the narrow bridge.
• In the cinema, the people who have a seat farthest from the aisle enter last.
• Exciting game situations only occur when you look the other way.
• A bus that never came comes along as soon as you have walked so far to your destination that boarding is no longer worthwhile.
• As soon as a body is completely submerged in water and foam, the doorbell rings.
• How long a minute lasts depends on which side of the toilet door you are on.
• The uglier the houseplant is, the worse it wants to die.

 

• Kitchen tools that you put in the dishwasher are actually needed again immediately afterwards.
• A man only meets a beautiful woman if he already has an appointment, has his wife with him or is with a rich friend.
• As soon as you sit down for a cup of coffee, the boss asks something of you that lasts until the coffee is cold.
• Every time you clip your nails, they come in handy an hour later.
• As soon as you wash your car, it starts raining.
• If you rush to get to an appointment on time, you will have to wait an hour.
• If the oncoming traffic comes towards you with festive lights and waving, then you are the wrong-way driver from the radio.
• The more itchy you are, the harder the area is to reach.
• If you are forced to park six blocks away, just two spaces become available when you enter the building.
• The traffic light turns green as soon as your car has come to a stop.

 

• Pimples invariably appear an hour before your appointment.
• The love letter you finally dared to send will be in transit long enough for you to consider yourself a complete idiot.
• The more annoying and dated the magazines in the waiting room are, the longer you have to wait.
• If it’s been on your desk for fifteen minutes, you’ve just become the expert.
• To get a loan, you first have to prove that you don’t need one.
• After all, when a problem involves many meetings, the meetings become more important than the problem.
• The customer who pays the least complains the most.
• The man who laughs when things go wrong thinks of someone to blame.
• A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want.
• To err is human, but to really make everything go wrong you need a computer.

 

• If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier.
• The ideal person will appear a day after the position is filled.
• You will always need the exact file you didn’t save.
• It is always the most valuable object that falls and it always falls on your toes.
• Anything can become work if you mess around with it long enough.
• Most jobs require three hands.
• Nothing is so permanent as what is called temporary and nothing is so temporary as what is called permanent.
• Toothache usually starts on Saturday evening.
• Errors in a book remain undiscovered until the book is printed.
• When the stewardess comes by with coffee, the plane experiences turbulence.

 

• Children never spill on a dirty floor.
• A clean tie always attracts the soup of the day.
• The intensive care unit is always the furthest away from the hospital entrance.
• The consumer association always publishes the test about your purchased item the week after your purchase.
• If there are only two TV shows worth watching then they will be broadcast at the same time.
• Cracked plates never break.
• Washing machines only stop during washing.
• The more expensive the device, the less you will use it.
• A sixty day warranty means it will break on day sixty-one.
• Success is always in the private sphere, and failure is in the full glare of the spotlight.

Quantized Revision of Murphy’s Law: , Everything goes wrong all at once. ,