Life's Crazy Rules

** A friend sent me these rules.  Figured sharing them would be okay.**
* 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. 

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