The Laws of Life
Lerman's Law of Technology
Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money. Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.
Murphy's First Law for Wives
If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.
Law of the Search
The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it. Corollary: It will not be in the last place you expect to find it.
Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation
The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.
The Salary Axiom
The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.
Miller's Law of Insurance
Insurance covers everything except what happens.
First Law of Living
As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else.
Weiner's Law of Libraries
There are no answers, only cross-references.
Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness
Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.
Kenny's Law of Auto Repair
The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inaccessible location.
Second Law of Business Meetings
If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you will pick the wrong one.
Corollary - If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it wrong anyway.
The Grocery Bag Law
The candy bar you planned to eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag.
Yeager's Law
Washing machines break down only during the wash cycle.
Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.
Lampner's Law of Employment
When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot.
Quile's Consultation Law
The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.
Loftus' Law
Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even which book it is.
Lovka's Dilemma
You never get away, you only get someplace else.