What if Murphy's Law was a real person?

Murphy's Law always keeps us guessing and his brother Quiet or "Q" keeps us up at night!

[Delilah_Anne]

“Hey, at least the patient’s still alive.” Should be considered manslaughter

[ethank]

To anyone who isn't a first responder wondering if a man with a huge mustache really pops out of nowhere and goes on a psychotic rampage anytime his name is mentioned ... Yes yes he does

[davidcarroll]

Speaking as someone who has run screaming with a lit flamethrower that's like a million therapy sessions at once

[kevingodfrey]

Murphy and Quiet as relatives somehow just makes perfect sense now that it's been said aloud. Love you guys and gals!

[magnanimus]

Also props to whoever your cameraperson is. That last pan-out shot was ace.

[annoyingnessbeginswithme]

God bless quiet, he's the rage of every nurse, cashier, firefighter all wrapped in a nice package

[Thesnakerox]

Fenton's role as "Quiet" was just perfect LOL

[itsjustme]

I was career USAF for 32 years. Spent 18 of those years as an F-15E pilot. Asked my crew chief one time why they always had an extra place at their card table/lunch table/whatever activity they had going on with nobody sitting there. He told me "That's Sergeant Murphy's place, sir. Because if he's here, then he's NOT fucking with your bird, sir!" I scratched my head, grinned and walked away. The ONE time this rule wasn't followed (Pearson was home on compassionate leave), I lost my left eye, and what was left of my bird ended up being used for parts. I never flew anything but a desk for the rest of my career. I never questioned TSgt Pearson's infinite wisdom again! From Colonel to Major General, it was an unwritten order that Sergeant Murphy ALWAYS had a place of honor....well away from anything important going on and always made sure that he had gifts at Christmas!
Murphy is a motherf*cker, ladies and gents!

If "Q" were ever invoked, I expect we'd be breaking out the 'shiny (look it up)

[chattphotos]

This needs to be a running series of absolute hilarity involving all the way Murphy could make things go very very wrong

[forgenorman]

OMG, I laughed SO hard at the end with Quiet running around with the flamethrower! I would love to see a series with Murphy and Quiet, I'm sure you won't run out of material for that!

[Zichqec]

"My brother Q on the other hand? That dude is a raving psychopath."
As somewhat of a trekkie I enjoyed this immensely

[yochva]

At my office, I handle this the theater way: whenever I come back from the weekend, I say, "So, did anything explode while I was away?" and it's usually all been quiet.

(In theater, the pre-performance send off is "Break a leg!" so that the actor won't do it. And the common wisdom is, "The worse the dress rehearsal, the better the opening night.")

[jb]

I'm now retired after 45 years of working in a large hospital's ICU as an aide and unit clerk, and on the midnight shift, to boot. To say we were all (and they all still are) very superstitious where the two forbidden things to say were concerned would be an understatement the size of Texas! The staff NEVER used the words "quiet, " nor "What can possibly go wrong?"
The one and only time I ever knew of when someone foolishly said, "What can possibly go wrong? We have only 3 hours left of this shift, and it's been quiet all night! You're all so silly for being superstitious, " all Hades broke loose within 15 minutes of his opening his big mouth and he was hated on the rest of the night!

[mta]

It was a real person. Named after Capt. Edward Murphy. An engineer. Let's not forget. "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."

[MrZoomah]

I met Murphy on my first call out as a volunteer. Structure fire at 9pm and I was paired with a guy in his late 60s. Small town, only five firefighters so he just couldn't retire. As we're taking the hose around the back I said to him, "Oh. I forgot to put my visor down." I stopped to put it down and he was pissed off at me for slowing him down. I thought I was being such a rookie. He said, "You don't need your visor." Walks five more steps, steps on a rake and it flies up and brakes his nose. Being diplomatic I reacted with grace and professionalism. I fell to the ground laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.
Second experience: moved town and there was an old people's home who had a toaster that lead to sooo many false alarms. However, we had to respond to every one to back up the career guys in case it was one. Sucks when you work a full time job and the toaster always was used at 4:30am. We were talking during training and one guy, who was one of those guys who would have been a career firefighter if ONLY the selection panel weren't biased, said. "If the next call out isn't interesting I'm going to quit." When we talked about not angering Murphy he said, "Stop it with that crap. There's no Murphy's law." We all crossed our fingers, hoping for a toaster. But.. he had invoked Murphy. Next morning it was a light plane crash. Nothing really to do as the career guys contained any fire. We got tasked with sweeping the area to check to see if anyone had been thrown clear and mark the location of any body parts. He quit. While he was a tool it was very traumatic so no shame but...
Don't ever say Murphy doesn't exist.

[Geeky_Riley]

I love that this popped on my feed the day after I told a coworker "Don't say the Q word". And he did. It turns out it also works for retail! XD

[Dragonspirit]

"Hey guys, wanna make a video with me?"
"Depends on what we're doing."
"One of you will spill coffee on yourself, another will spill oatmeal on your face while the other runs over a wooden beam, another will trip on a fire hose."
"Doesn't seem that fun..."
"And one of you will run around with a Flamethrower while screaming your lungs out."
"Sign me up."

[amezrismommigower]

"My brother Q on the other hand? That dude is a raving psychopath."
As someone who works in a call center I totally get this.

[Masterzegan]

"Q" is just about the only superstition I have and enforce. My coworker said it once then the building I work for caught fire. Mind you that happens about 80 times a year but it's still inconvenient

[vinny]

People at The Company Formerly Known As Facebook: "At our workplace we ride electric scooters to work!"
People at google: "We have a ballpit!"
FDC: "We have flamethrowers."