Murphy's Law
Source status: Attributed to Arthur Caldwell
You've been waiting for the bus for a long time, so you light a cigarette, and then here comes the bus.
- Arthur Caldwell
If you light a cigarette, the bus will come.
- Anonymous
In context
This law belongs with Murphy's Bus Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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