No matter how early you arrive at a sale, they are out of the item you want. A man is judged by the company he thinks nobody else knows he is keeping. In any collection of data, the figures that are obviously correct, contain the errors. The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability. Every man nourishes within him a secret plan for getting rich that will not work.
All inanimate objects are intrinsically malevolent.
The checkout at which you queue has either a defective bar-code scanner or a trainee operator or both. The lane into which you move is always the one which slows down. The train going the other way always appears before the one you want. The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75 percent of the balance of the shipment. Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to the tightness of the schedule.