"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

stuff snipped

When I reached in with my hand to figure out what was going on, I
discovered that the 3/8" socket I had used the last time I took the
fenders
off - 3 years ago - was still on the head of the bolt! It was very rusty,
but it came off with just a little effort. It had somehow hung on for 3
years and thousands of miles.

Imagine if for some odd reason you *had* to keep it stuck on there. No
epoxy or loctite in the world could have held it. There's probably an
endless list of things people have accidentally driven off with. I know of
a portable typewriter that made a ride of several miles on the roof of a
car.

I had a strangely similar experience this morning. I went to plug in my
TomTom portable GPS to recharge it and the mini-USB plug just wouldn't fit.
I tried two other cables because the USB socket is deeply recessed in the
GPS and only plugs with a fairly narrow overall plug size will fit.
Finally, after that failed I took out the magnifier. It turns out that the
tiny metal shield around the plug of the last cable I had used to charge it
had come off and was lodged inside the GPS jack. Just the metal surround
shield, not the actual connector was stuck in there. I took a pair of
needle-nosed pliers and pulled it out and all is fine again.

It once took me five years to find my favorite staple gun. I had gotten
interrupted tacking down the back edge of a very tall bookcase and had left
the stapler on top of the bookcase toward the back. Much time intervened
and it wasn't until I climbed up on a ladder in that room that I saw the
long lost stapler.

My neighbor's dog used to steal his tools - mostly screwdrivers and wooden
handled chisels - and bury them in the backyard.

--
Bobby G.