From where exactly ?

And the mysteriously appearing chipping scenario very nearly destroyed my cars engine  ! Things have come to a head this week when I reached for a plastic beaker I had used just the day before. I intended to place the beaker over an intake pipe when working on my car to prevent foreign objects falling into and destroying the turbo. You know, just to be safe. It was at this point I noticed a large chipping as big as my  finger nail was in the beaker. How it got in there during the last 24 hours I don't know. I do however know that if not spotted it would have dropped neatly into my engine and most likely destroyed it, and written off my car. It just felt so deliberate, the whole sorry incident. Maybe im looking to much into this, but after other incidents this seems to be part of a reoccurring picture.

  This is not a one off occurrence. A similar sized chipping appeared in my newly washed  pocket recently. I cannot explain this at all. In the past I have been plagued with very tiny chippings falling in the house out of thin air and in my garden shed, or out of the tree that over hangs it. I tend to collect these just to reassure myself they are real..lol

  Again this week things took a more serious turn when I cleaned out my cars brakes and found a lump chipped from the brake caliper pistons, including the starting of a crack which would have led to brake failure. A mechanic  thought a small stone or chipping had become jammed in there but that is almost impossible due to the piston being hidden. Upon refitting the car wheel after the repair a large chipping was balance in the alloy wheel rim defying gravity as it would have dropped out as the wheel was upside down when I picked it up. How did it get in there in those few seconds ? Why did it not drop out ? Its just getting way beyond a coincidence now.

  These troublesome chippings are getting much larger suddenly and more threatening. I would welcome back the old pitter patter of the sound of the falling ones anyday.  Equally worrying is self locker nuts and bolts unwinding themselves around here, but that's another story....