This task was somewhat inadvertently completed the other day whilst I was working with my father (who is an electrician) installing the electrical components for a new production line in a metal-working factory.

Ratchets have always been a favorite tool of mine--incredibly easy to use with the added bonus of cool clicky noises that makes you feel really professional. Because my daddy knows everything about everything, I asked him to explain why ratchets make clicky noises, and how it is exactly they work. Sparing the technical details (it's actually really quite simple), he showed me a ratchet he had taken apart a day or so before and explained that it wasn't put back together yet because he lost the "Jesus clip"*.

The term "Jesus clip" describes a series of different clippage devices that are all lovingly termed "Jesus clips" because they have the tendency to spring out of devices when one is installing or removing them. Airborne Jesuses can travel yards in any direction and then are usually never seen or heard from again. Upon losing such a clip, one yells some variation of "JEEEZUSSSS CHRIST, WHERE'D THAT f***IN' THING GO?!"

And THAT, my friends, is how they got their name. Supposedly.

Anyway, since I'm really ridiculously good at finding the impossible, I offered to have a look around the general vicinity to see if I could find it (if it hadn't been swept up yet). After looking in, on, around, and under various machines and scrap carts for about 2 minutes, lo and behold- I found the Jesus clip! When I realized what I'd done (found a Jesus, that is), I was so excited I told my dad to wait on fixing the ratchet until the next day, when I could bring my camera to "recreate" and document my finding experience.

*(technical name- "internal C- clip")