Clock spring

I really wish those fuckers down there at IKEA would get their part quantities right.

There’s nothing worse than finishing a three hour job only to find one part left over.

After another ten minutes of frantic checking; yes, they gave me one extra.

It sort of reminds me of the time, as a kid, when I surreptitiously pulled the family clock apart.

After I put it back together there was one spring left over.

The clock still seemed to work so I stashed the spring and said nothing.