Ain't it the truth

blue water massey · Oct 14, 2016

not sure if it's ever happened to me but have spent a lot of time looking for missing pieces

rrlund · Oct 15, 2016

I lost one out the bell housing on my 1365 when I put a clutch in it. I used the trouble light and crawled all over the shop looking for that thing. I gave up and moved on. About an hour later,I found it. It was stuck to the magnet on the trouble light.

Dale c mi · Oct 15, 2016

Carb spring out of a dodge 318. Looked for ever, went and found a used carb. Found the old spring stuck in the bottom of my boot when I took my boots of for the night!

notjustair · Oct 15, 2016

I rebuilt the carb on a vw bug. I was running it and revving it up. It swallowed the brass accelerator pump jet and spit it out the fancy header. Right into my shin. I'm not sure which was worse - getting smacked with it or branded with it.

Now I make sure they are in good and tight.

Alan K · Oct 15, 2016

Have had small parts end up in my shirt pocket when they flew. At least I would eventually find it.

Goose · Oct 15, 2016

Once I was adding oil to my wife's Chrysler T&C. (For some reason, it always has used about a quart in 3,000 miles, while my Dodge with same 3.8 engine uses none).

I had placed the oil filler cap on the radiator support, and in the process the cap fell down behind the radiator. From where the cap was sitting, it should have fallen straight down onto the garage floor. I never did find it, although I took a flashlight and looked all over hell and half of Georgia, as they say in North Carolina, both on the vehicle and on the floor. I had to go to O'Reilly's and buy a new one.

Several weeks later, when our local NAPA shop was doing an oil change I asked them to look for it. They drew a blank, also. Years from now if a salvage yard is dismantling the vehicle they may find it. That's still one of the greater mysteries I've run into in the repair business.

For valid reasons, I'm convinced the spirit of an old girl friend who died young without marrying is following me around. Maybe she was pulling pranks? But that's a different story.

Mike(NEOhio) · Oct 15, 2016

I've spent half an hour looking for a small screw then found it in my shoe.

PopinJohn · Oct 15, 2016

At a recent baseball game, a fellow was going to propose to his sweetheart, but dropped the ring.
Within a few minutes of panic, the ring was found in the cuff on her jeans.
He proposed, she said yes, and got on TV.

Ain't it the truth

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