Who The Hell Is Murphy??

And why is he making all this stupid law?!!

It's only when you're late that you find yourself stuck behind a car going 40kmph on a one lane street. Never in a million years would that happen when you have all the time in the world.

Just who is Murphy? And why the laws?

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it. Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.

Some more examples, if you're interested..

• When you need an item that is in a heap, it will always be the one at the bottom.
• The day you forget your umbrella, it pours with rain.
• When caught in a traffic jam (or a bank, supermarket, or other business where the customer has to wait in one of multiple lines), the lane that you are in will always be the slowest to move.
• Junk will grow to fill the available cupboard space.

.. and my personal favourite..

• Smoke always goes towards non-smokers.

It's funny isn't it, when things happen at times you don't want it or don't need it to happen. You can't fight it, you just have to embrace it. And if you know how to, tell me.. please.