"million to one shots crop up nine times out of ten."

I've got a million things to do, but I had to post about this.

Between last night and today I've been working on mowing the lawn, because it was supposed to rain today for the first time in, like, a while. Last night I went to refill the gas tank of the lawnmower, and because it was getting dark and I didn't think I could see the level of gas well enough, I fumbled one of my earplugs out so I could hear it filling... and the earplug dropped right into the gas tank. That hole is what, a little over two inches wide, and already mostly blocked by the nozzle of the cannister?

This morning I was back at work, and had to move the ladder which has been leaning against the side of the barn for long enough for the grass to grow a bit too long, there. (I left it, last mowing.) When I went to put it down the mechanism which allows to to telescope back down was jammed by a small rock, just exactly the right size to fit in just to the top of the space, so that I could touch it but not get my fingers around it. I had to turn the ladder upside down and rattle it around for a minute to get the pebble to fall out. All I can think is that it must have fallen off Eor's shoe when he climbed up the ladder, and somehow managed to fall and slot itself right into that tiny gap, just the right size for it.

I'm beginning to think we have a mischievous spirit of some sort, here.