wtf.. screw fell into motorcycle gas tank

soooo my new painted  suzuki gsxr pink gas tank is painted looking all shiny so i decided i'm going to reattach the gas tank back to the bike so i can run it a little.

so i got it on and was adding the metal fuel tank cap / cover. i was literally down to my last screw and bam!!! it popped out of the screw hole and fell down the fuel tank rolling in the little bit of gas i did have left in the tank. i screamed so loud in disbelief even my dog looked at me because he thought something happened. something did happen the f@#$& screw fell in the tank.

so i immediately text my biker people to see if i could just leave it in there knowing the partial ocd in me wouldnt let the screw stay there. while i waited for a response, i got my extended magnetic pole thingy. i got a flashlight leaned my head against the tank, took a big whiff unknowingly of premium gas and focused my one eyeball not leaning on the gas tank to find that screw.

ah ha! i see it. i stick that magnetic extended pole into the tank and it literally stuck/magnetized every part of the inside of the fuel tank but the  f@#$& screw  so now im standing there with a wtf! look on my face. i grab my phone and google it since clearly im not the first one this happened to. Between my friends texting back and google i heard multiplr responses.. you can leave it.. dont leave it cuz itll rust, dont leave it cuz itll clog your fuel line, etc. So i made up my mind to stop being lazy and get it out. After reading that the suzuki gsxr 600 screw is stainless steel and will NOT get picked up by the magnetic extender pole i was highly frustrated.i took the tank off, took the time to wrap it in painters tape and plastic drop cloth. I was trying my best to protect my new paint job on the gas tank. I flipped the gas tank upside down and I shaked, shaked, and shaked. I heard the screw but with all those groves on a sportsbike gas tank, it was in no rush to come out. I didn't even come close. I was taking a break when I turned the tank upright and what was soaking wet? The plastic drop cloth and was clinging to my new gas tank paint job. wtf! 

apparently for that night "wtf!" was the only word I knew because my night was going down the toilet. Earlier i thought i had left my key in the car my mom borrowed. So she rushed back and it wasn't in there. She used her spare key and i got in the garage. Wtf - I had left my copy of the garage and bike key still IN the bike. I know wtf! I take the key out and finally have possession of it. I think I'm good when this whole gas tank issue hit the fan. So back to the gas tank... I grab the closest rag to wipe off the gasoline and since it's a cloth one (what else would it be), the fibers from the cloth kept sticking to the tank, now i have spots of blue all over the fresh painted pink gas tank and it was getting sticky and smudging the paint. oh man i was really pissed now. F@#$ the screw - don't ruin my paint job. So i stopped found a wet white rag and blotted the spots the gasoline had poured on (alot of spots/areas). I get it all off (hopefully) and I take my focus back to the screw. A friend gave me an idea to get an extender with a claw at the end. Never heard of it but i knew old people had it to reach things high up on the shelf, i just need to get a skinny one just like that... off to home depot!

Well after an hour and nightfall finally came, Home depot was Home cheapo and after asking 4 different associates, nobody knew what i was talking about or could help... wtf! was that not a tool store or is it all hype. Mad at the world, I said whatever let me go down the block and see if dollar tree has something i can makeshift into a claw with long handle. Right next to dollartree is an " advance auto parts " store... my savior before i knew it. I said okay, they close first let me go to this auto store and see what they think i should do. This man I could've kissed him. I wanted to kiss him!! He knew exactly what i was talking about and went to aisle whatever # and grabbed a long arm thingy with a mini claw at the end. I immediately said to myself WTF!! That was exactly what i needed. I ran to the line and maybe i looked to excited the guy in front of me let me skip him so i can make my $7 purchase and get out of there. Bless his heart lol 

I sped home with the intent of getting this f@#$ screw out tonight!!! No light in my garage (it's one of those garages behind apartment building), so i turned my car to face to garage and gave it all the light i could. My mom held the gas tank (poor thing was a trooper and helped me the whole night while i was a basket case falling apart over one screw stuck in the gas tank.. she even called her biker friend who had the long claw suggestion.. thank you "Q"!).. so back to story.. she held the gas tank, i pressed my face against the gas tank again with the flashlight on the side and looked for the screw. I saw it and then began the journey off the claw aka  "Flex mechanical fingers" into the gas tank. I got it!!! WTF! finally it was over. The screw was out. I was so mentally exhausted after that 2 1/2 hour episode I literally left the tank on the table, closed the garage and walked away... 

mic drop... goodnight lol

shared on youtube too. nobody should have to go thru my drama!
https://youtu.be/lK1RTrv6w9g