Originally Posted by Trsnrtr

Quick spoke story:

Many years ago, I came in from the field when my secretary told me that we had a copier repairman working on our machine and was totally flummoxed. I checked on him and he had manuals and schematics all laid out on our break room table, meanwhile tapping his forehead with a spoke. I had been using a spoke for a book mark in a tech manual and it had evidently fallen into the machine while I was making a print copy.

He had found it during routine maintenance and was trying to figure out where this threaded hooked thing was supposed to go in our machine.