OK, who has my sparkplug wrench?

Post by **JimK** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:21 pm

I'm sure I had it yesterday, but now I need it I can't find it. Typical.

Post by **les** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:51 pm

Have a look behind the metal cabinet just to your right.

Post by **Welung666** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:59 pm

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:14 pm

I always find that the best place to look is the 'somewhere sensible' that you left it.

Unless it was my motorcycle keys, which were in a wooden ale mug in an unmarked box. They were quite challenging to find.

Post by **Rasputin** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:25 pm

You know that when you can`t find something, it`s always in the last place you look.Well look there first!!!

Post by **JimK** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:27 pm

Pyoor_Kate wrote:Unless it was my motorcycle keys, which were in a wooden ale mug in an unmarked box. They were quite challenging to find.

In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware of the Leopard"...
(5 points for getting the reference)

Having found your keys, did you remember what possessed you to put them there?

I can't remember where I left the wrench. I thought it was with all my sockets but this appears not to be true. Oh well, I guess I'll run the old ones for a bit longer...

Post by **Peetee** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:27 pm

It's in the place it should be. You didn't look hard enough because before you looked you thought it wouldn't be there and you wouldn't find it.

Post by **paulhumphries** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:58 pm

I once lost a critical parts off a carb I'd dismantled to clean.
Looked everywhere but no sign.
I got a mate to run me to the scrap yard where I dismantled another carb for the part.
Managed to get it all back together and went inside for a well earned shower.
After the water had drained away there was the part lying in the bath

I assume it somehow got caught up in my hair.
No chance of that happening now though as no hair left !

Paul Humphries

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:03 pm

JimK wrote:In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware of the Leopard"...
(5 points for getting the reference)

I met a planning officer at a recent con and he told me it was his job to prevent trees being cut down. I asked if that entailed lying in the path of a JCB, and he proceeded to recite that whole passage, only forgetting the bit about the sign on the door.

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:08 pm

paulhumphries wrote:I once lost a critical parts off a carb I'd dismantled to clean.
...
I assume it somehow got caught up in my hair.

I once had a small spring fly off and disappear when I was dismantling something. After a couple of hours crawling about searching the floor of the garage for it, I put my hand into my pocket for my handkerchief and found the spring inside.

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:55 am

In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware of the Leopard"...
(5 points for getting the reference)

Surely I'd need to get 42 points for getting the reference.

And no, I never did work out what posessed me to put them in that box. Why I didn't leave them, say, with the bike at my mum's house I've no idea...

Post by **JimK** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:30 am

Well, it turned up. I moved something in the shed to make way for my new seats and the wrench fell on my foot. I have no idea at all why it was there.

But now I can change the plugs, so I shall endeavour to do so at lunchtime.