Grandpa is the repair man!

We have family living in the annexe,
and share a vacuum cleaner.
One day the so-useful crevice tool
was missing.
‘It will probably turn up when
muddle corners are tidied up’,
we thought.

One day Grandad was asked if he
could mend the wardrobe floor-level drawer
(had a young child leant on it,
or sat on it – had big sister, suggested
little sister do so?).
Job done slowly, 
as little sister watched –
‘What’s that?,
what are you doing? 
What’s that thing for (retracting steel rule)?…’

Then realised the vacuum cleaner 
wasn’t sucking very well.
Some gunge removed.
A bit better.
The plastic hose removed.
More gunge out.
Hold it vertically and shake …
out drops …
the crevice tool!

When the other tool was off the hose,
did little fingers poke it in
or was the cleaner turned on, and it somehow sucked in?
It must have got sucked up and stuck up higher
next time the vacuum cleaner was used anyway!

Must interrogate to see if little ones 
do know what happened.