Losing It

• Posted on 18 August 2022
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We have been working on a lot of projects lately.  Many tools are required.  Those tools include: wrenches, drills, screwdrivers, saws, pliers, clamps, wire nuts, and of course, tape…  

I turned my back, perhaps I took a few steps away, for just a moment. The special wrench I was using, and desperately needed, had vanished.  I cannot finish what I am doing without it.  Why would someone take it? Surely they know I need it, or I wouldn’t have it here, carefully piled with everything else I desperately need. There are 25 people working here today, did one of them take it, or am I simply losing it? 

No, no wait.  Nobody took it. They didn’t take it.  There’s been no one else around.  Perhaps I moved it; set it aside.  But where?  I just had it.  It was right here.  I was using it only a minute ago.  Where could it have possibly gone?  I’m telling you, it was right here!  Let me think.  Where have I been?  Am I losing it?  I just had the 5/16” combination ratchet/open end wrench in my hand.  I have to have that wrench. 

As a last resort, I resign myself to the fact that whomever took it, is not going to bring it back.  It is gone.  I am forced to go the hardware store and buy yet another special wrench, that I already have one of, that somebody took.  They could’ve at least asked!  I drive five miles.  I find the replacement.  I stand in line to pay.  I am given the amount.  I reach in my pocket for money.  I bring the money out…along with the missing wrench.  Now I remember putting it in there…so I would avoid losing it!

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