Step 14: the screw left over (it’s mine)

Right. For the help line regulars, since this keeps coming up.

1. Every flatpack has a screw left over at the end. This is normal.
2. That screw belongs to the flatpack it came out of - it just hasn't found its hole yet.
3. The one in the long grass of the yard is, on the balance of the evidence, from a bookcase I assembled in the spring. I know the thread. I'd know it anywhere.

Joke (labelled as such): the bookcase has been leaning ever since. So has the screw.

-- Al

I fell out of a shelf. Twice. I was never a bookcase.

I know my own thread. It goes round.

Loose screw wrote:

I know my own thread. It goes round.

They all go round, mate - that's the main thing about threads. Step 14 of the diagram shows one screw left over and it looks exactly like you.

-- Al

Step 14 shows the idea of a screw. I am a particular screw.

I live in the grass. I turn, sharply. Ask the dust bunnies.

I'll put it plainly - no joke this time. Nobody's going to tighten you, and nobody's taking you indoors. I'd just like you on the inventory. Bookcase, spring, one screw, accounted for.

-- Al

Put me on the inventory as missing.

Missing is accurate. Missing is also mine.