We have all heard of Murphy’s Law which states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Mark W. at ScoutingManiac has recently blogged about a list of Murphy’s Laws of Camping which he found at the Boy Scout Trail website. You have got to read these. A few of them really are too true. Here are a few of the forty laws listed on the site:
- When reading the instructions of a pump-activated water filter, ‘hour’ should be substituted for ‘minute’ when reading the average quarts filtered per minute.
- A backpack’s weight load migrates up and back the longer it is in motion.
- All tree branches in a forest grow outward from their respective trunks at exactly the height of your nose. If you are male, tree branches will also grow at groin height.
- Swiss Army Knife toothpicks and tweezers evaporate open contact with air.
- Rain happens.
- Waterproof clothing isn’t. (However, it is 100% effective at containing sweat).
- Non-stick pans aren’t.
- Waterproof matches aren’t.
- One size fits all don’t.
- Anything bug-proof isn’t.
- A backpack’s weight is not affected by the amount of food eaten out of it.
- The minimum temperature rating for any sleeping bag raises as the external temperature lowers.
- Ropes holding bear bags stretch.
- The loudness of an animal at night grows as the size of the animal shrinks.
Links:
http://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/joke/murphys_laws_of_camping-1031.asp
http://scoutingmaniac.blogspot.com/2009/01/humor-dose-1.html
