Sod's Law

Someone will call to see you on the one morning when you did not get up at 7 a.m. and get bathed/dressed/tidied up. Applies espcially when your house is on the market.
Airtraffic controllers will choose the first day of your holiday to go on a one day strike.
Contact lens will resist all attempts to find it, , even going over entire carpet with your hands, but will turn up later completely dried out.
Baby will fill nappy when zipped into all-in-one suit.
Your company will offer redundancy package the month after you give in your notice.

Most of these no longer bother me, but they have all happened to family/friends.

Feeding the cats while getting our dinner ready I just managed to drop one cat's highly expensive thyroid pills all over the kitchen floor! You would not believe how far tiny pills can bounce! Managed to collect them all up (luckily they are bright pink) gave the cats their dinner, and when I turned back there were another 8 pills in the middle of the floor - how????

Actually I'm practicing for my next cruise. I'm going oop north.
To Iceland!

About 2ft from my chair

jeni you've become all northern since I last was on GN!! have you moved?

If owt goes on floor!---- it stays there until someone comes.
And that includes me!

Wait till three things drop and then pick up(5 if you are on crutches) and wait for 3 lightbulbs to go before getting out the steps.

Things always go wrong just after the guarantee runs out.

Nanado the useful thing about this universal law's having 2 names is that you can call it Sod's Law unless you're with your MIL or GC, in which calling it Murphy's Law saves and explanations.

Which reminds me I should have been somewhere 3 minutes ago

And if you've left plenty of time every traffic light will be green and you'll arrive far too early, so you've the choice between waiting in the car park or carrot cake at a nearby cafe.

If you're trying to get somewhere in hurry every traffic light will be against you.

Nando...yes it's the same law.

If you have a disability aids shop in your neighbourhood, Mishap, they're sure to have one and it would be quicker than having to buy it on line.

Anno that's called 'Grandma's hand' in our house. We somehow managed to bring MIL's home when we were clearing out their house and it lives in the umbrella pot in the hall. We use it loads for getting 'things ' that have fallen into inaccessible places etc. Every home should have one

that appliances always break in runs of three !

Great idea anno - I'll look into that!

Is Sod's Law the same as Murphy's Law?

Mishap, when I was a bit incapacitated and on crutches after my hip operation, my neighbour lent me her gadget for picking things up off the floor or getting them down from high shelves. When I had to give it back, I went and bought one for myself and still find it useful. It's called a Helping Hand and is available here.

Sod's Law is in permanent residence here - I am on crutches and you have no idea how often I drop things! Nothing wrong with my hands, so no reason for it - but it is so frustrating as picking things up causes a bit of a pickle with the crutches, one of which usually finishes up on the floor too!

I spread Marmite on a Ryvita the other day, and as I turned to put the knife in the sink, my cardigan caught on the Ryvita and it fell on the floor face down (my Ryvita - not my cardigan). I spread another one and the same thing happened, but this time it was face-up - so I just ate it and gave the other one to the birds. I've lived to tell the tale (and you should see the state of my kitchen floor !

Pedants - sorry about the confusion of pronouns in the above post.

You wait in for days for a package you're expecting; the day comes when you simply have to go out and when you come back there's a little notice from the postman that he tried to deliver it and I can collect it from the delivery office four miles away.

When you rush into the Post Office for a stamp you always get behind someone buying road tax.

buying the latest gizmo only to find 2 weeks later they have brought out an "improved" version