ImageMurphy’s Lawyer

Time limit: 12 minutes

Everyone has an object or device that refuses to work when you need it. Murphy’s Law seems to kick in each time you need it to work flawlessly, dousing your hopes and dreams in a flurry of flaws and errors. It may be a printer, a computer, a fax machine or maybe something as simple as a remote but we all have that one object in our lives that is conveniently broken at the most inopportune times. In those moments, we fantasize about its violent demise. Its time to move the fantasy from your mind to your paper.

Your task today is to first select that item that fails to work when you need it. Then, you’re going ...

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