My late father had one miraculous ability. There were always two pairs of rubber boots in his car trunk. No matter what. He never needed them. Always just got in the way.

I don't have a car and I've used one pair of rubber boots since late 1990s. (Made by Nokia, so, you know, basically indestructible.)

I have so many vises...

Let's see, there's the giant leg vise on the work bench, the big ass 5" bench/pipe vise, the two small bench vises, the workbench with the holdfasts and bench dogs...Plus the pipe clamps, and the parallel clamps, the quick grip clamps, the F clamps, the band clamps, the spring clamps, the hand screws, oh...and the drill press vise mounted to the drill press!

You can never have too much work holding!

My father could never approach my collection of cables though

Learned that you can go to your local screw store and buy them for pennies instead of going to Home Depot or whatever.

A lot of people think there are just two types of screw - cross head and flat, but when you look deeper you see a whole world of variety: Phillips, Pozi, Robertson, Torx, Allen, etc. etc. the list goes on and each one is valid; and should be respected.

You haven't screwed around enough, clearly.

Instead of screws, you just have 5 bags of wires that you definitely will need some day.

Is this how a house slowly lose integrity? Because each time things get unscrewed one less screw go back in?

Choose to think of it as a positive; you've been better at making sure things are properly screwed in and aren't ending up with vast collections of "extra" screws.

You must defeat him in a series of screw based challenges and you shall inherit the screws. It has been this way since the dawn of man.

Screwed.

It was a riddle, right?