Murphy's Law

MURPHY’S LAW
I don’t know who Murphy was, but everybody knows his law: Whatever can go wrong, will! It never fails. Physicists can fudge Newton’s laws, they can fiddle with laws by Boyle and Mendel. But nobody can get anything past in Murphy!
Just look at the various astronaut accidents. The crews and flight controllers practice for every eventuality over and over again. All of the systems are doubly and triply redundant, so if something fails there’s a backup to the backup! Unless the weather and all other conditions are absolutely perfect, the shuttle won’t even take off, even if the scheduled liftoff is only seconds away. And yet, despite all of these precautions, every few years something terrible happens. It’s because of the inexorable nature of Murphy’s Law. Whatever can go wrong, will.
It’s too bad that there isn’t corollary like “Whatever can go right, will. Sometimes we get lucky and something nice happens to us by chance, but it’s a hit-or-miss type of event. There are a lots of good “right” things I’ve dreamed about my whole life, but not very many of them have actually happened. But I’m sure that I’ve suffered from all of the bad consequences of my carelessness of just being in the wrong place at wrong time.
Whatever can go wrong, will. And, always, at the worst possible time.