So if you go to the supermarket 12 times, you'll probably be in the fastest moving queue just once. If you add in a bit of selective memory failure, and the fact that you almost certainly didn't take written notes of your shopping trips, you'll probably think that you never are in the fastest moving queue. But Murphy's Law of Tumbling Toast is a bit harder to solve. You reach across the breakfast table to top up your morning cup of tea, and the edge of your shirt catches the toast, slides it to the edge of the table, it falls off and nearly always lands buttered-side down. The Tumbling Toast problem goes back a long way - it's not just you.
Some people say that it's because of the weight of the butter.
In 1991, the BBC TV series 'QED' thought that they had disproved Murphy's Law about Tumbling Toast. They got their volunteers to flip some buttered toast up into the air, and see which way it landed. At first, they thought that Murphy's Law was acting on their experiments to make things go wrong - to make it look like Murphy's Law did not exist. But in reality, they had just done a really dumb experiment. Under the usual circumstances I've mentioned at the breakfast table, the buttered toast will first be dragged off the edge of the table, and then begin to fall.