I never thought that vacuuming the house would turn out to be such a big ordeal. I began in one of the girls room, plugged the vacuum in and started mowing the carpet, I mean sucking up all the dirt and grime...err I mean vacuuming. So I noticed that it didn't pick up a simple piece of paper that was about a half of an inch in diameter.

So I begun my investigation.

First unhooking the hose and peering down into the black abyss hoping to see an obstruction. Next I sat down on the floor and flipped the vacuum on it's back.....examining the underside...the dark and mysterious belly that no one sees...because it's on the floor! Anyway....I saw the culprit! It was a thick mass of dirt, lint and puzzle pieces crammed tightly into the hole that leads to the hose of the vacuum. I sighed and jammed my finger into the hole to try to unwedge the mass. I learned quickly that this is going to take more than a simple finger jamming...this is going to take a screwdriver jamming. I go in search of it...recalling that the last time I saw the screwdriver it was in the laundry room on the shelf with the hammer and nails. So I went in search of it of the PHILIP'S HEAD screwdriver so that I could open the bottom of the vacuum and jam the same screwdriver into the hole to unblock that mutha.

Of course it wasn't there. I mean...why would it be? I am just here everyday, in the laundry room, everyday and it is was there before.

I tore through my husband's 3 tool boxes....those suckers are heavy! I find a flat head screwdriver and take it to test the screws. I thought, "Sure I can make this work! I can just tilt the screwdriver sideways to loosen the screw. "

Uh......no. Didn't work. Don't you hate those screws that need JUST the perfect screwdriver head?!??

To cut the story short, I did find the PHILIP'S HEAD deep in the third tool box that I was looking in. *sigh* One little lonely Philip's Head. I wanted to kiss it and thank it for existing. It feels so good to find just the right tool. I took it into the girl's room, along with a pair of pliers, and unjammed that sucker!