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I Have a Gremlin in my Workshop.

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WmJW

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There must be. Whenever I drop a small part (like an eyebolt or deadeye) it simply disappears. The gremlin grabs it and takes it who knows where. He usually returns the part anywhere from a few hours to a few days later, sometimes longer. Then he places it in a spot I KNOW I had thoroughly searched before. I can almost hear him laughing at my puzzled expression and cuss words.
 
WmJW said:
There must be. Whenever I drop a small part (like an eyebolt or deadeye) it simply disappears. The gremlin grabs it and takes it who knows where. He usually returns the part anywhere from a few hours to a few days later, sometimes longer. Then he places it in a spot I KNOW I had thoroughly searched before. I can almost hear him laughing at my puzzled expression and cuss words.
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... you make me laugh.
 
Jimsky said:
that's fine, Jeff, but you don't have gremlin/s, thought.;)
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Let me introduce you to Gizmo from the movie "Gremlins". Don't feed her after dark! ROTF
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Actually, her name is Penny Lane (like the Beatles song) and she is as sweet as can be. :) But I don't think I would trust her around small wood parts. :)
Here, she is plotting to take over the world....

Wait ! Was that a bunny ?!?!
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There is no need to consider mythical beings. Science can explain this phenomenon.
  • Entropy: The second law of thermodynamics introduces us to entropy, which tends to increase. The higher the entropy the higher the disorder. In other words, nature does not like little parts to be where you think they belong but prefers them scattered about.
  • Murphy's Third Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
  • Murphy's Fourth Law: If several things could go wrong, the one that causes the most damage will be the one that goes wrong. In practice, this means that if you drop and lose a small part, it's likely to be the part of which you don't have any spares.
  • Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: You cannot know both the position and the velocity of a particle at the same time. This works against accurate estimation of the direction and distance that a small part travels when dropped.
  • Search Theory: It's always in the last place you look. Since you can't know where the last place is, you may need to look in an infinite number of places to find what you lost.
  • Gravity: According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity is the bending of spacetime. While Newton would have us believe that apples all fall toward the center of the earth, Einstein tells us that small parts can go almost anywhere.
If we could find where gremlins hide the stolen parts, we might be able to retrieve them along with missing socks and food container lids. Fair winds!
 
WmJW said:
There must be. Whenever I drop a small part (like an eyebolt or deadeye) it simply disappears. The gremlin grabs it and takes it who knows where. He usually returns the part anywhere from a few hours to a few days later, sometimes longer. Then he places it in a spot I KNOW I had thoroughly searched before. I can almost hear him laughing at my puzzled expression and cuss words.
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i used to have carpet monsters in mine then I removed the carpet and now I have vinyl, but I guess now I am haunted by gremlins. You can never win with dropping parts...
 
I think @AndyA nailed it. Quantum theory tells is that space-time is not uniform. Variations in space-time form vortices that, being denser than uniform space time, tend to settle to the floor. Parts falling off the bench are apt to land in one of these vortices. If it lands in a vortex with a quantum tunnel to the past, it is gone forever, but if it lands in a vortex with a quantum tunnel to the future, you will only find it after you have caught up to it in real time. Sorry, guys. That’s the science. ;) ROTF
 
its you from the future... future guy slaps the part out of your hands, or borrows a tool n never put it back where he found it. realize he is you but older. he comes from a time when time travel is possible. he isnt allowed to mess with the space time continuum but hey, hes old n fogetful. i figure he must be either restoring my ship or building a ship n cant get parts. you know the saying... "they dont make em like they use to." my 8yro grand daughter figured it out and says you just have to wait and you will catch up with him and you will find the lost parts n tools. she must have seen back to the future.
 
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