[mabarker1]

The “Nth” piece will never be found no matter how long you search.

Until You go and spend 45 minuets driving to the Hardware Store and buy the missing item and return to walk in the Shop and see the part that was missing on the other end of the Workbench.

[Fresh Wind]

Yes, exactly true. It works for tools as well.

You know you have the tool you need, but you can’t find it. In desperation and to save hours of searching, you buy another tool, then the one you know you have reappears as if by magic.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Until You go and spend 45 minutes driving to the Hardware Store and buy the missing item and return to walk in the Shop and see the part that was missing on the other end of the Workbench.

Otherwise known as the Law of The Lost:

The best way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.