True story

[baldo]

[Serk]

[Big Rig]

Now that is quite shocking....

[John Schmidt]

Both are hilarious. As for the second one, recall the old screw in type house fuses? People in the past have been known to stick a penny in the socket and screw the blown fuse back in to hold it there. Yes....there were a few fires.

True story and telling on myself; A couple years back while working on the GL1200 project, I dropped the 10mm socket I was using and heard it go rolling away. Down on my knees, I looked under my rolling tool chest, all around the bench, scoured the entire garage. Gave up looking, thinking it will turn up in some other dimension where single socks often seem to go so went and bought a new one. I have one of those small SS dishes with a magnet on the bottom, it's for holding small items so they don't get lost while you're working on your current project. I have a couple small stools from Harbor Frt. and they have a tray built into the bottom of it where I keep that small dish. It was at least a year later when I picked up the stool I had been using the day the 10mm disappeared so as to replace the casters. When I turned it over on the workbench, the magnetic dish still clinging to the tray, albeit upside down, there to my wondering eyes was my long lost 10mm socket....stuck magnetically to the bottom of the stool tray, compliments of the SS dish. I now have three 10mm sockets, ready and waiting to be lost. 

[Robert]

Usually have a few around, just in case one disappears. A bit of consolation to us who do some wrenching from time to time, Dr's have a nurse that counts all the instruments that she hands the Dr's and make sure they are all accounted for. Normal joes don't have that luxury but at least its a bit of consolation that we are not alone in loosing tools.  

[¿spoom]

...thinking it will turn up in some other dimension where single socks often seem to go...

Packrat Aliens (PRA's) is a current theory that may have some validity. It seems under certain time space continuum conditions Packrat Aliens shoot a beam at earth dwellings that beams up a single sock for examination, and then they beam it back. Sometimes the process is contaminated in some way, and sock comes back as a Tupperware lid that fits none of your current containers. I myself have proof, in the form of several of these PRA lids!

[Jess from VA]

My idea of a good 10MM.

[DirtyDan]

My idea of a good 10MM.

GIGGLE   

I knew THAT was coming

Dan

[scooperhsd]

Everything is bigger in Texas (including the 9mm handgun and bullets)