Once I and my friend had to push a bike, which refused to start, for a mile, to a mechanic. There is a phrase in Tamil slang which tells about the spanner number 10. It goes this way “pattham number spanner”. Mr.Mechanic commanded his sub-ordinate for the spanner number 10 and he used it to fix the issue in minutes. I and my friend, engineering graduates, were amazed to see how great the spanner number 10 was and were discussing how lecturers never gave us spanner number 10 and expected us to produce magic results in labs. We forgot the fact that it is the mechanic who used the spanner deftly to fix our issue. A few months later, we indulged in a conversation which led us to the magic spanner number ten. Here goes our beautiful conversation.
Me : Is it something special with the spanner number 10 or the mechanic?
My Friend : I think it is the spaner number 10. I have heard about the numbered spanners and how they fix problems et all. One can go ahead and do a thesis on the subject.
Me : Really? How interesting it will be. Long live the person who invented the spanners! May be we shall have a spanner number 10 for all our problems so that we can tweak them with a single twist. What you say?
My Friend : Yes! One day we may.
Thinking about this incident puts me in laughter and at the same time I am thinking about putting the spanner number 10 for our day today situations.
I wish I had a spanner number 10
to organise my time in a better way.
How about you?
P.S.:- I heard someone shouting loud for a spanner number 10. Turned back to see that my neighbour looking for the spanner number 10 to tighten my loosened screws. hehe! 
