If you lose a tool do you panic and go OCD?

[Pete999]

When our tools came back from an overseas trip they all ended up in the store in our workshop, if you weren't there to take custody of your tools, they sort of got shared around, not that bad as most of it was supplied by the stores, but you get to know your own set and treat is if you had bought it, at least I did,
I had this big insulated screwdriver I had had since my days working for the SWEB big booger, loved it I did, course it went missing, found it about a year later in someone else's kit, soon had it back in my tool case though.

 

[littlespark]

You only ever lose the tool you need at this particular moment. This is also the exact same moment you find something you thought you had lost 2 weeks ago, lying on the top tray, where you left it.


Tried a little DIY wood butchery the other day. Even bought a new hand saw for this.

Couldn't find a pencil for marking... had to take one from kids...
Couldn't find a decent tape measur.. found an old one that didn't spring back completely...

Losing tools is one thing... breaking them another.

I dropped the pencil onto concrete. That was the lead shattered, it wouldn't sharpen.. had to pinch another one. Then the tape measure followed. Split in half and unravelled.

That was an end to the days DIY project.