ROD KER STORAGE WARS

As fellow DIY mechanics out there will be all too aware, proceedings often grind to a halt when an essential part or tool goes AWOL. This is particularly annoying when you are absolutely certain that said object is definitely somewhere in the vicinity, but you can’t remember the precise location of that somewhere. Annoyance turns to exasperation and indignity as you stomp around muttering the back garden mechanics’ mantra: ‘But it must be here!’

So you search again, even though you’ve looked everywhere five times, including in the cardboard boxes with the bottoms that fall out when picked up