Yep.
Replacements often do the trick.
Or... telling someone what a PITA something is being, or that you've given up on finding whatever it may be.
This very morning, my wife and I spent a combined four hours looking for our son's shin guards, for his last soccer game tonight. I finally sent her a message after she had left for work: "They're gone. Can't find them. Even looked in the freezers."
Turned around, tripped over the girls' toy box, and out poked the end of one of my son's shin guards...
A couple months back, I spent over 4.5 hours trying to get the oil pump shaft lined up just perfectly, so a new distributor would drop into the engine in my Nova. Finally sent a bit of a text message rant to one (or two?) of my brothers, complaining about how stupidly (and unnecessarily) tight the tolerances were on the new distributor gear and shaft.
Put the phone down, picked up the distributor, gave the oil pump shaft a random spin with a priming tool, and plunk! Dropped right in.