Murphy's Law

Source status: Attributed to Butch

If you're working under a car's hood and dropping something, it will always roll to the middle of the car and just out of reach.

- Butch

Category: Murphy's Cars Laws

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This law belongs with Murphy's Cars Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.

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