Related:

• Bess's Universal Principles: 1. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.
  2. You will reach it just in time to hear the click of the caller hanging up....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you ask archie where to find your keys.
• How can you tell if your car is a lemon? Your car might be a lemon if
  1) You can't get your glove compartment closed because of all the repair receipts....
• If you get on the telephone and call an onion to hear a ring, you are a truly sick person.
• The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you are in the bathroom.
• Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
• A watched telephone never rings. -- The Ring Rule
• If there was a terrible storm outside, but somehow this dog lived through the storm, and he showed up at your door when the storm was finally over, I think a good name for him would be Carl.
  -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey...
• Law of Telephone Dynamics: The phone call you keep waiting for comes the minute you're out the door.