Related:

• Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.
• Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur. -- Sodd's Second Law
• In any given set of circumstances, the proper course of action is determined by subsequent events.
  -- McDonald's Corollary to Murphy's Law...
• Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
  -- Murphy's Law Corollary 6...
• Chisolm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law: When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.