Yes, twice, but file in Missing Category - "Yes, but due to other laws of physics"Screws Loctite'd
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Which "other law of physics" are we talking about?
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A dropped piece of hardware will always bounce and roll to the most inaccessible location, defying all odds and laws of nature.
If you drop hardware when working on your motorcycle it will fall into the most improbably small hole on the bike. You wouldn’t be able to make the part go in that hole if you tried to place it there with your fingers.
When you accidently open something with a spring in it, say for instance the gas cap assembly, the spring will exit so quickly that it exceeds the speed of light, thereby disappearing from this dimension of time/space.
You can see the screw, it looks like it is out in the open, yet when you try to access it with a tool you discover that there is a force field around the part, totally confounding your ability to reach it.
The curse of the 12th bolt. With 11 of the 12 fasteners removed the 12th one is too small for an 11mm, too big for a 10mm, too small for a ½” socket and it is impossible to reach with an adjustable wrench. Listen closely, hardware can laugh.
The curse of the 4th bolt. The first thee came right out. The 4th bolt stripped before you even turned the tool.
The curse of the 4th bolt, raised to the third power. You just broke your hardened extractor in the stripped bolt. You can’t get access for a drill to reach the broken extractor.
Every piece of hardware you just removed can be replaced at the local hardware store except one. That one just dissolved into atoms and scattered across the universe. It is totally unavailable anyplace on this planet; you have to buy an entire assembly to get that missing piece.
Replication from molecules of air. You just finished the job and found one spring and two important looking bolts sitting on your bench. Certainly they just appeared there because you are sure you reassembled the item correctly.
There is a spacer for which you can’t remember the correct orientation. In spite of there being a 50/50 chance of getting it back on correctly, black math will always ensure that there is only one outcome, a 100% surety of getting it wrong.
All you have to do is get the bead chain to drop down and get the last bead into the clip. An invisible shield suddenly bridges the area around the clip; the chain defies gravity and will not drop into place. Space suddenly distorts causing the last bead on the chain to grow and the opening on the snap to shrink.
Once you have things set up so it is impossible for something to go wrong, it does.
You discover that when something couldn’t happen once in a million years, it suddenly happens a million times in one year.
Anyone else have one?
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