Gone Walkabout

1.Law of Mechanical Repair
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and
you’ll have to pee.

2. Law of Gravity
Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible
corner.

3. Law of Probability
The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your
act.

4. Law of Random Numbers
If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always
answers.

5. Law of the Alibi
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very
next morning you will have a flat tire.

6. Variation Law
If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster
than the one you are in now (works every time).

7. Law of the Bath
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

8. Law of Close Encounters
The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are
with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

9. Law of the Result
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

10. Law of Biomechanics
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

11. Law of the Theater or Basketball Coliseums
At any event, the people whose seats are farthest from the aisle arrive last and they are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over while those in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and who stay to the bitter end of the performance and beyond. The aisle people also are very surly folk.

12. The Starbucks Law
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do
something which will last until the coffee is cold.

13. Murphy’s Law of Lockers
If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

14. Law of Physical Surfaces
The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor
covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of
the carpet/rug.

15. Law of Logical Argument
Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.

16. Brown’s Law of Physical Appearance
If the clothes fit, they’re ugly.

17. Oliver’s Law of Public Speaking
A closed mouth gathers no feet.

18. Wilson’s Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy
As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

19. Doctors’ Law
If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time
you get there you’ll feel better. Don’t make an appointment and you’ll stay sick.