'lost' tool funny one.

[rsewill]

There is a car commercial with some guy who can't find his sunglasses. The couple backtracks halfway across the state only to find his sunglasses in his hoodie when bats chase him out of a cave. And his companion is understanding - give me a break.

 

[Don87]

Yeah, but then you have no one but yourself to blame, it's easier to blame the shmuck who borrowed them!!!

These are all funny stories though, good reading! I can only add that I know of one of the top of my mind. I lost a small, Craftsman metric socket inside the frame of my '83 Toyota truck I was working on many years ago. You know how some sockets don't fit snugly onto the ratchet handle?? This one fell off at the worst time/place and dropped into a hole in the square tube frame. The frame was angled where the hole was and I could hear it roll down a few inches. It's still there, and believe it or not, I still have the truck! It doesn't run now, but maybe one day I'll figure out a way to retrieve my socket!!

Flexible Magnetic Pickup Tool

 

[Redneck in training]

When I was a kid we had a tame jackdaw (small crow bird) flying around the village. It would come when called, could say few words etc. The bird had a bad habit though. It liked anything shiny and since it was accustomed to people it would fly in the house and steal stuff such as spoons, watches, coins, jewels, small wrenches, keys etc. Lot of people were missing stuff. One day, don't remember if it was a storm or tree was cut down, all the stolen items spilled on the ground. They were all deposited in the birds nest.

Google "kea parrot" for really destructive bird.

 

[Redneck in training]

Just recalled another. When I was about 5 or 6 our father caught me and my younger brother throwing his priced Gedore sockets in the well behing his shop. I think he fished them all with a magnet on a rope.

 

[aczlan]

Just recalled another. When I was about 5 or 6 our father caught me and my younger brother throwing his priced Gedore sockets in the well behing his shop. I think he fished them all with a magnet on a rope.

Luck he didnt fish them out with you on a rope...

Aaron Z

 

[Travelover]

Luck he didnt fish them out with you on a rope...

Aaron Z

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[Johnp33]

If you ever work on a Cummins 855 the water pipe below the cooler has a grove in it that fits a socket perfectly and That is one thing I use to look at every-time I dropped one while working on them many times I would find other peoples as well as the one I had dropped.

 

[Swamp Yankee]

I was installing a set of main stairs in a new house about 25 years back. The builder hadn't installed a sump pump yet, it was a wet spring, and the basement was full of water to within about 2 feet of the first floor joists. Let's not question the wisdom of continuing to build in these circumstances - I was a sub, and not the GC. In any event, I dropped my cordless drill, and of course it bounced into the basement stair well to Atlantis. Ah, well. It was the first I'd ever owned, a 7.2 volt Makita. Losing it was a great excuse to step up to the new generation of 9.4 volt drills.

 

[Alien]

I can sit at work bench and lose a tool cannot locate until go into the house get a cup of coffee and return and the tool is where should be. wife thinks it is funny.
ken

Ken My wife and I can relate to that. It happens to both of us on a regular basis. Whether it is tools or cups or stuff in the pantry. I think it is something to do with shifting dimensions. :laughing::laughing: Gotta be....:confused2:

 

[Alien]

Funniest thing happened just a couple of days ago. Don't tell my wife I told you...
I was waiting in the car for her and she was running around looking for her handbag. I told her it was on the side board. She said, yeah it was but I picked it up and now I can't find where I put it. Frustrated she came out to the car to see if she had dumped it in there. Looked at me and said. "I can't find it anywhere"
I said, " whats that on your shoulder?" :laughing::laughing: