tools that have a way of hiding themselves

[Frank S]

Strangest thing is this evening after dark a neighbor needed a plumbers snake, so tell her that I have one but not even the almighty would know where it could be hiding since snakes always try to hide and reach out to bite you when you don't expect it. But we have a go at trying to dig through stacks of boxes stored in a make shift mezzanine in the machine shop trailer, the last place I think I remembered seeing it. as soon as I step up on the ledge of a tool box my foot lands on another pickle fork laying right there in plain sight where I had searched through thae very same box yesterday I guess I hadn't spotted it because only the round end was sticking out. I ignore it and finish climbing up to yhr storage area box by box I send one down she goes through it and places it aside now down to the last box nadda ziltch nothing Ok lift all the boxes back up and stack them start searching somewhere else I finally locate the snake and she says OH I can't use that it won't fit through what I need to clean out. I need one of the small hand held ones.
Well I have one of those as well but not even the creator of the whole universe's great grand father would know where that thing would be located. All I know is it has a blue plastic housing a handle with gorilla tape on it and a little 1/4 cable that is about 25 feet long I have a 20" diameter red one too with a 100 foot long 1/2" cable and a cutter head on the end for going through tree roots in a sewer line, but I know exactly where it is stowed away in the very front of a 53 foot dry van next to a 450 amp 3 phase mig welder the only reason I know where it is was because of my pickle fork search yesterday in a toolbox in that van. The little blue plastic one well that thing could be anywhere since I've never used it I only know that I have it.
So I went with her to her rent house and we forced a 1/2" garden hose with the end cut off through the line using water pressure to jet the clog out. it made a big mess but at least it wasn't the toliet that was clogged, only a mass of hair in the tub drain. Her city folk renter had trimmed her hair while standing in the tub taking a shower
Anyway I now know where 3 of my 6 pickle forks are LOL