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Anything that falls will fall in such a way that it will land in a location and manner to do the most damage. I discovered this in my hall ceiling today (1st pic.) Poking through was a metal bar. (3rd pic.). The second pic shows where the pointy side down poked through. I had patched it and then thought to take a picture. If it landed flat no damage; 2 inches to the left, no damage.

Have you ever noticed how we take something like this and extrapolate to make it a law? But we never see the many times something has fallen and done no damage to make that a law. Maybe that’s how laws are made in Congress, by viewing the negative and ignoring the positive.

As a consummate pessimist, I always believe the worst as my opening position and at the close, things rarely turn out as expected and usually end up much better than I thought they would or could.

From my viewpoint, Murphy's law rarely holds true, and if it were truly a law, we'd have gone the way of the dinosaurs centuries ago.

On the other hand whenever Congress makes laws, Murphy seems to be working overtime.