Laws of ...

* Lerman's Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money.
Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.


* Murphy's First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.


* Law of the Search: The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.
Corollary: It will not be in the last place you expect to find it.


* Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.


* The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.


* Miller's Law of Insurance: Insurance covers everything except what happens.


* First Law of Living: As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something else.


* Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross-references.


* Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness: Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.


* Kenny's Law of Auto Repair: The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inaccessible location.


* Second Law of Business Meetings: If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you will pick the wrong one.
Corollary - If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it wrong anyway.


* The Grocery Bag Law: The candy bar you planned to
eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the
bottom of the grocery bag.


* Yeager's Law: Washing machines break down only during the wash cycle.
Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.


* Lampner's Law of Employment: When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot.


* Quile's Consultation Law: The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.


* Loftus' Law: Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even which book it is.


* Lovka's Dilemma: You never get away, you only get someplace else.