Certain astute individuals have noticed that such events are not the exception but, rather, the rule. Men like Murphy, Peter and Parkinson have made it their life work to ferret out the operating principles - the laws that govern the frustrating lives that we mortals live. Here is a small sampling of these laws. If anything can go wrong, it will. LAW Murphy was an optimist.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
Every man has a scheme that will not work. Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can. The other line moves faster. That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have got. An object will fall so as to do the most damage.