Ha well done David -- but don't forget the two most offending gremlins

The kids and the dawg

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I doubt, therefore I might be !




"David Stinson" wrote in message
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Unrevealed Source wrote:

... But how do you lose a
battery cover? ....

There are "cover gremlins," just as there are sock
gremlins and screw gremlins. You can disassemble a radio,
put it back together and you usually will either have
screws that mysteriously go missing, or extra screws
that don't seem to go anywhere. The Screw Gremlins,
which live on the inside of the power sockets nearest
your bench, either take screws from you or
leave ones with which they have become bored.
They consider this a "fair exchange" over time.
Same with Sock Gremlins: put three matched pairs
of socks in the dryer and out will come either
two pairs and one odd sock, one pair and four
unmatched socks, seven odd socks or any other
combination. Cover Gremlins are, however,
much more greedy; they almost never return your
covers and, if they do, they break them first.
There is no cure for them; they are just
a fact of the radio life.
The Duct Tape Gremlins do help somewhat with
this problem; they are responsible
for the five or six loose, partial rolls of duct tape
you can always find if you move stuff around enough.
Sympathies,
David S.