Examples

These are some Murphy's Law examples:

• A slice of buttered bread, when dropped from a height, will always land butter-side down.
• Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics #1: If an object is in motion, it will always be going in the wrong direction
• Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics #2: If an object is stationary, it will always be in the wrong place.
• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
• 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.
• Nothing is as easy as it looks.  
• The first 90% of the job takes the first 90% of the time. The second 10% of the job takes the second 90% of the time.
• Just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, the roof caves in.

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