Having had the benefit of a sound Catholic education, (yes, that was me... private school girl, box-pleats, blazers and all..hehehe), I was indoctrinated as a child with some fundamental beliefs, that no amount of life experience will ever rid me of. Useful things. Things like the power of a short, sharp crack over the knuckles with a wooden ruler as a piano-teaching aid.. that sort of stuff:). Oh, and that everybody has a Patron Saint.

What the nuns failed to warn me about, though, and which I have discovered through bitter experience,  is that in my case, my Patron Saint happens to be Murphy and his laws apply to me so profoundly that I automatically assume something will go wrong in any undertaking I am involved, just so I can get in first.

So, I had to laugh when this came through on the email the yesterday at...ahem.... work. Some of these aren't very original, but they're very true. And opening the email crashed my computer. Go Murphy:)

Murphy's Lesser Known Laws

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.
8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.