Featherweight
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I wonder is it just me or does anyone else experience working on something or putting something away, and as soon as you turn your head....it disappears...
Do yall believe in shop GREMLINS?
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jwhcars
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Ha ha ..... I think I call this having a senior moment.
TheGrooveking
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It's well known that ghosts will play hide and seek with stuff, I've had it happen in a few houses of dearly departed family members. The worse one was when I was looking for a light bulb, knew they were located in a certain cabinet, checked 3 times, looked all over the house went back to the cabinet and sure enough there sat a light bulb, like it was being presented to me.
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Handyman163
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Or curious little children!
I had my first tool rearrangement by my 20 month old son just recently. I just re-did my socket drawer to contain all of my sockets in one drawer of my 26" wide tool chest, and the drawer is about face-level with him. He pulled it open and moved all of the ratchets and extensions around (nothing missing, thank God). I later figured out that he had moved a chair over there to climb on to do it. He's quick and strong, that one. I lock chest now.
4-RunDog
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I think a Gremlin is behind the dissapperance of my tape measure everytime I set it down!
z28snksknr
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sc3013
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He's over here today. I went to the parts store for shocks for the f150, got home put truck up on lift. Went in and ate dinner. Came back out and removed old shocks, and could NOT find new ones. Looked every place I could think, finaly let truck down and got them out of the back, took twice as long as it need be. But I am 64, that's my story and I stick to it.
hilld
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Good idea, he might do something our kids did when they were younger, the used the drawers as stairs (this was the kitchen, not the tool box).
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m289271
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My garage gremlin is is blonde, 5'2" and calls me "honey".
sctattooer
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I wouldn't mind a gremlin like that
MP&C
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Absolutely, although I'm told there has been a ghost on my property by the previous owners grandkids. While recently reassembling a Fairlane after restoration, we were installing the rear quarter windows and found one of the "felt shoes" missing. We had some boxes of parts stored upstairs, and as it isn't the neatest storage in the world, I typically watch the floor to make sure I don't step on anything. Four trips up there to look again, each time looking at the floor as I walked, still nothing. Broke down and made a replacement.
One week later, windows installed, I walk upstairs to look for something else. There in the middle of the floor, where I had walked while looking at the floor, was the missing piece in plain sight. This is not the first occurence, so we think the "ghost" is a prankster.
One week later, windows installed, I walk upstairs to look for something else. There in the middle of the floor, where I had walked while looking at the floor, was the missing piece in plain sight. This is not the first occurence, so we think the "ghost" is a prankster.
djjsr
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I have one in my workshop. Every time I drop a tiny screw or spring, he scurries over and takes it. He brings it back weeks later.
I think I hear him laughing at me sometimes.
I think I hear him laughing at me sometimes.
Not sure if I believe in shop gremlins, but their cousin.....the elusive
motorcycle gremlin, is really starting to pi$$ me off
Do you have a small bell mounted somewhere on your bike? That is supposed to keep the gremlins away, but the catch is the bell has to be given to you by someone else. So it doesn't do any good to go buy one for yourself. I had a firefighter brother that gave me one similar to this one in the pic.
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tdkkart
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I have his brother at my place. Everytime I drop a tool or parts he scurries out, picks up the dropped item and throws it in my oil drain pan. I find it the next time I empty the pan.
The Channel-Lock gremlin was at my place yesterday, I couldn't find the damn Channel-Locks anywhere, looked everywhere I could remember using them lately, even looked in the house thinking I had used them when installing the dishwasher last Friday, even had SWMBO looking, still nothing.
Went and sat on the throne for a bit, still pondering. When I finished I headed out the back door telling SWMBO I knew exactly where they were at.......sure enough, right there under the hood of the VW where I had left them the other day. They had ridden there 50mi to work and back.
Ray-CA
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We've a couple that plague us. One in the garage (he likes parts and tools) and another in the house. He's partial to socks but has been know to take just half of my wifes laundry. The missing items are usually found within a week or so (or sooner if I buy a replacement tool or part.)
Ray
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Yep i have them too infested with them... my 5 yr old daughter sees, a man in a black hat and long coat and he just looks at her from the hallway she says, so i told my wife and she looked shocked...she said didnt wanna sound crazy herself but she sees the same image in the same spot to the t. me i havent seen anything but in the garage ive been looking for stuff since ive been working on it.
Kurn
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The tire chains for my snowblower disappeared for three years.
nehog
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Few years back. Have a set of four one inch + (1 1/16, 1 1/8, 1 3/8, 1 1/2) wrenches. Was doing a peg board for the wrenches and did a test hang of the set. Didn't like the alignment, took them down, reset the hooks differently and hung up the remaining three wrenches.
Note: I didn't move more than five feet from the place where I was working on the peg board, and I've not yet, after over a year, found that missing 1 3/8" wrench. To this day I think it slipped into another dimension in the space/time continuum.
Note: I didn't move more than five feet from the place where I was working on the peg board, and I've not yet, after over a year, found that missing 1 3/8" wrench. To this day I think it slipped into another dimension in the space/time continuum.
Dan in Pasadena
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No.
But then I don't believe in saying "yall" either!
But then I don't believe in saying "yall" either!
Falcon67
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Hell, I got a nest of 'em here. I'm thinking Malathion, or maybe gasoline. Mine really seem to like connecting 7/16, 1/2 and 9/16 wrenches. I found the 9/16 moocher's nest the other day, now I have 4 identical in the tool box.
D.J.
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It's the time people! Sorta like the "Langoliers" by Stephen King. Or the old Twilight Zone series Named the Time People where if their is noone in a room it doesn't exist until seconds before you enter it. Sometimes they forget to put all the items into the room and you have to leave some times up to two or three times and give them time to replace the item you are looking for.
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premierplayer
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If I find my keys, I'll look for your wrench. They've been missing since `90 +/-. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent over the years looking for them.
Ok, so it's not just me who thinks about stuff like this...It's the time people! Sorta like the "Langoliers" by Stephen King. Or the old Twilight Zone series Named the Time People where if their is noone in a room it doesn't exist until seconds before you enter it. Sometimes they forget to put all the items into the room and you have to leave some times up to two or three times and give them time to replace the item you are looking for.
But this idea is not working so well with my keys.
Pretty sure they (keys, maybe the wrench too) have spun off into Dryer warp with all the single socks. Could be on that Planet that regenerated with Spock
Torque1st
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Gremlins are what Murphies turn into when they get old. Some get really cranky with age.
bigbluerigak
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I had something similar
I was renting an old house while the owners were spending two years traveling. I had a real nice pocket knife. I sat it down on my desk on top of my old sega game gear(Old I Know) and then I could not find it. Just gone. Spent weeks looking for it. The desk was moved around the den area three times. One day after moving the desk back to its old location I walk down stairs and their it was. sitting on top of my game gear. The kids were not home and I cannot explain it.
A few months later my wife was walking down the hall twords me, she made a 90 degree turn into the kitchen. There was a little boy with blonde hair in a bowl cut with a blue and yellow stripped shirt walking behind her. He looked straight out of the 70's, He made a 90 degree turn to the oppisite direction and vanished into a closed door closet.
Later I found out that the owners had a 5yo son that had passed on in the house.
I was renting an old house while the owners were spending two years traveling. I had a real nice pocket knife. I sat it down on my desk on top of my old sega game gear(Old I Know) and then I could not find it. Just gone. Spent weeks looking for it. The desk was moved around the den area three times. One day after moving the desk back to its old location I walk down stairs and their it was. sitting on top of my game gear. The kids were not home and I cannot explain it.
A few months later my wife was walking down the hall twords me, she made a 90 degree turn into the kitchen. There was a little boy with blonde hair in a bowl cut with a blue and yellow stripped shirt walking behind her. He looked straight out of the 70's, He made a 90 degree turn to the oppisite direction and vanished into a closed door closet.
Later I found out that the owners had a 5yo son that had passed on in the house.
My grandfather didnt die in the house but i think hes still in my grandmothers house. in the basement was his workshop and one day i went looking for the electric drill and couldnt find it. well i looked all over and came back to the bench, and there it was right in the center of the bench. it kinda freaked me out cause i was the only one there at the time but now i think it was kinda neat that i think he did it.
spartyon8
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On my first car stereo install I was using a pick to pull the power wires through the cab. When finish I put the pick on the subwoofer and then continued hooking up the wires. This was in a truck so the sub was facing up. The next day I was looking for the same exact pick when changing a hose on my daily driver. I couldn't find it so I hopped into the truck with the new system that wasn't tested or tuned yet. Needless to say I found the pick, stuck to the cone of the subwoofer. Didn't realize at first until I couldn't take the constant buzzing noise. Yep...there went $100 down the drain.
Very cool gremlin bell. I don't have one on the Road King, but I always put one on my wife's bike whenever she gets a new one........better safe than sorry
BlownMopar71
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Are shop gremlin lives in the floor drain. No matter where you are in the shop if you drop something it bounces or roles into the floor drain! 5 ,10, 20 feet away it doesnt matter.
jeepnut24
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My shop gremlin just rolls whatever I drop under my work bench, or just far enough out of reach.
jwhcars
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I was getting the lawn tractor ready for the season the other day. I have an old putty knife that I use to scrap out the mower deck ....... I know that I laid it on the floor with the other tools that I was using .....yes you guessed it ..... it has disappeared.
It is now 3 days later and still MIA. This one I can not chalk up to a senior moment.
It is now 3 days later and still MIA. This one I can not chalk up to a senior moment.
rikmeister
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at frirst i thought this was about an AMC Gremlin.
I swear sometimes I hear a voice out in the garage.
Now most of the guys at the firehouse say it is haunted.
Now most of the guys at the firehouse say it is haunted.
BlindViper
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Nothing in the garage but, when we first moved into this house. I took a glass bowl out of the cabinet and set it on the table. I grabbed the cereal out of the pantry and as I walked towards the table the bowl exploded. I was extremely freaked out by this since there was nothing that had touched the bowl since I put it there.
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Featherweight
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My shop gremlin stole the keys to my van 2 days ago........I happen to be lookin for something else......What i find....My keys somewhere i know good and damn well i aint been in my shop....
Kona Cruisers
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In hawaii we call them Menehune .. lil bastards
Shopshirt Mofo
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My wife's father had a shop in the back of their childhood home. After he died (not there) it was turned into an apartment for her sister. The sisters says he's there, radio will come on without warning playing one of his old tunes or she'll come home and find is picture has come off of the wall and is sitting in the middle of the hallway. etc... I like to think he's just trying to complete all of his old projects