After that, and putting my doubts about toast to one side, I moved on to investigate other notorious manifestations of Murphy's Law, such as why the queue you're in is so often beaten by the one next to you, and if the place you're looking for in the road atlas can lie on an awkward part of the map, it will. Time and again, these myths turned out to have a solid basis in fact. My research won awards, and I was invited to give a discourse on my findings to the Royal Institution. Yet still my worries over tumbling toast remained.