Write about solving a mystery.
Why is it that as soon as you want something inanimate, it hides? The corkscrew was kept in the kitchen drawer, it had done so for years, always in the same place so it could be found easily when required, but the one occasion it was needed, it wasn’t there. No bottles of wine had previously been opened and no one in the household had used it for anything untoward. Seeking yielded nothing and then, as if by magic, exactly where it should have been, it turns-up in the first place you searched, when it was ready to be found.