I’ve been using a variety of tools
while installing laminate flooring and some associated wood trim in the loft of
our cabin. While working on the project over the weekend, I found a rubber ring
on the loft stairway. It looked like something that might have been shed from
one of my tools—maybe from a pneumatic air gun or the compressor.
Frankly, the sight of the rubber ring
freaked me out. I quickly scooped it up and wandered around my immediate
worksite, examining various tools to see if any of them might have shed parts.
My tools proved intact. So, what sort
of thing might have lost such a ring?
Then, entirely by chance, as I sipped
coffee in our cabin’s unfinished equivalent of a kitchen, my eyes fell upon the
butane lighter I’d used to start a fire in the woodstove earlier that morning.
Bingo!
The ring turned out to be a
completely unnecessary design flourish that had popped off the lighter. Mystery
solved—and no tools were harmed in the process.
—Mitchell Hegman
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