This document lists several "laws" related to common annoying occurrences and inconveniences, such as tools rolling away when dropped, getting a wrong number but never an engaged tone, and things breaking only when trying to show someone they are broken. The laws describe humorous situations and phenomena many can relate to in their daily lives and work.

1. Rules for which reasons are
not-known ...
The rules however, always Work.....

2. Lorenz's Law of Mechanical
Repair:
After your hands become coated
with grease, your nose will begin to
itch.

3. Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to
the least accessible corner.

4. Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number,
you never get an engaged one.

5. Cannon's Karmic Law:
If you use the excuse that you
were late for work because you
had a flat tire, the next morning you
will actually have a flat tire.

6. O'brien's Variation Law:
If you change queues, the one you
have left will start to move faster
than the one you are in now.

7. Bell's Theorem:
As soon as the body is immersed
fully in the bathtub, the telephone
will ring.

8. Rubys Principle of Close
Encounters:
The probability of meeting
someone you know increases
when you are in a situation
where you do not want to be
seen by anybody.

9. Willoughby's Law:
When you try to prove to the
repairman that a machine doesn't
work, it will.

10. Zadra's Law of Biomechanics:
The severity of the itch is inversely
proportional to the reachability of
the area.

11. Breda's Rule:
At any event, the people whose
seats are furthest from the aisle
arrive last.

12. Owen's Law:
As soon as you sit down to a cup
of hot coffee, your boss will ask
you to do something which will last
until the coffee is cold.

13. Wooly's law:
When you are working late, the
boss will never be around. When
you are surfing the net the boss will
always drop by.