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DavidA:
As it's getting near Christmas let me tell you a true tale that fits in nicely.

Many years ago I used to help out an old mechanic in our town.  His garage was old school and quite messy,  but he was very keen on putting every tool back where it lived after each job.  So we could always find what we needed.
Anyway,  after one particular job the 13 mm deep socket disappeared.  We searched high and low (they denied all knowledge) but it wasn't to be found.  So we had to get out a spare socket.  We looked around off and on for about a week hoping that we would find it in some nook or cranny.  No luck.
Then as I walked in one day I saw the socket.  Right in the middle of a steel topped bench. "I see you found the socket" I said to him.  "Not yet" says he. "looks as if some blighter stole it".  "But it's here, on the bench" Says I.
He came over from the car he was working on and looked at the socket. "It wasn't there half an hour ago,  I was working here".

Very strange.

Dave.

rleete:
Reminds me of my dad.  Years ago, he lost a 9/16" socket, and constantly asked it we (his sons) had taken it.  We all denied it, but he asked over and over.  One day we all happened to be in Sears, and I suggested we all get him a 9/16" socket.  That Christmas, dad opened 3 presents, all the exact same thing.

Turns out he had found the original about a month before!

Artie:
The story of the socket reminds me of my new fishing reel... bought a bait caster which cost $330. Took it on the 'boys annual' fishng trip and at pack up time I dismantled all the rods and everyone just grabbed their bits... I dont remember getting my reel..


Got home and thought oh damn Ive left the thing at the river (5 hours away on a dirt road).... so I complained and whined for several months and it was forgotten about.....

Got up one morning and was getting ready for work...sitting right in the middle of the dressing room table is...the reel.....

Of course NO-ONE has any idea how it got there..... It really is great to have mates with a sense of humour.. and house breaking skills (obviously) :lol:

krv3000:
he is sum pics of my work shop

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