Finagle's law is just another bunch of simple corollaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
The real one, where all things started, is Murphy.
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I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
That's actually Finagle's Law. Murphy's law is "If there is a right way and a wrong way of doing something, someone will do it the wrong way." Murphy was an optimist.If it can go wrong it will.
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html
Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment. Finagle. I've ran into him too a few times.
Not as much as Murphy though.
Murphy law can be even more radical: if something can go wrong, it will, at the worst possible moment and with the most devastating consequences possible.
Some of its corollaries:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. But if we try to do something, they will go from bad to the worst possible.
The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage:
1) A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.
2) A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).
3) A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place
Some of its corollaries:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. But if we try to do something, they will go from bad to the worst possible.
The chance of the buttered side of the bread falling face down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage:
1) A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.
2) A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).
3) A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
That's actually Finagle's Law. Murphy's law is "If there is a right way and a wrong way of doing something, someone will do it the wrong way." Murphy was an optimist. If it can go wrong it will.
Dank is better at making laws than most politicians
Have faith in god and things will get better.
Dank's law: anything that can go right will go right.
Dank's law: anything that can go right will go right.
Long rant
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
Anyone else out there that has their own agent as well? I just need to find comfort in knowing
it doesn't happen to me all the dang time!
2 examples that happened in less than a week.
1) I need a large diameter fuel line hose. Only 1 place carries it in stock and they are about 13 miles away.
Ok good deal! I get there right after they open in the morning. Tell the guy this is what I need..
He than spends the next 20 minutes looking for this hose and coming back to me to show me what they have in stock even though
it isn't what I asked for. He tells me they don't have it and I tell him that I verified the night before, it was there in stock.
It's on the website inventory
So 5 minutes later he find the hose.. Imagine that..
Great I think.. He hands the hose off to another lackey to cut it the length I need. I noticed it wasn't an even cut.
I don't pay much mind to it since I assumed the guy started at the length I needed and cut a little longer (angle side)
I get home get to work and BAM.. the dumarse cut the hose 3/4" too short and the angled side was the actual measurement I needed.
Fortunately I was able to make it somehow work but seriously a 35$ hose needs to be cut right the first time..
2) I'm working on modifying a PSU and I go to the hardware store to pick up supplies.
They have only 2 10 gauge connectors that I need and no more in stock.. WTF kind of store is this..
Next I tell the girl working I need some 12 awg cable and how many feet of it.
I pay for my items go home and guess what? I get (1) 12 awg wire and (1) 14 awg wire..
WTF!!!!
Seriously this crap happens on almost a weekly basis.
I know shit happens right?
Every dam day here..
I'm one of those guys that seem to have their very own Murphy's law agent with them all the time.
If it can go wrong it will.
Anyone else out there that has their own agent as well? I just need to find comfort in knowing
it doesn't happen to me all the dang time!
2 examples that happened in less than a week.
1) I need a large diameter fuel line hose. Only 1 place carries it in stock and they are about 13 miles away.
Ok good deal! I get there right after they open in the morning. Tell the guy this is what I need..
He than spends the next 20 minutes looking for this hose and coming back to me to show me what they have in stock even though
it isn't what I asked for. He tells me they don't have it and I tell him that I verified the night before, it was there in stock.
It's on the website inventory
So 5 minutes later he find the hose.. Imagine that..
Great I think.. He hands the hose off to another lackey to cut it the length I need. I noticed it wasn't an even cut.
I don't pay much mind to it since I assumed the guy started at the length I needed and cut a little longer (angle side)
I get home get to work and BAM.. the dumarse cut the hose 3/4" too short and the angled side was the actual measurement I needed.
Fortunately I was able to make it somehow work but seriously a 35$ hose needs to be cut right the first time..
2) I'm working on modifying a PSU and I go to the hardware store to pick up supplies.
They have only 2 10 gauge connectors that I need and no more in stock.. WTF kind of store is this..
Next I tell the girl working I need some 12 awg cable and how many feet of it.
I pay for my items go home and guess what? I get (1) 12 awg wire and (1) 14 awg wire..
WTF!!!!
Seriously this crap happens on almost a weekly basis.
I know shit happens right?
Every dam day here..
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