Timeline for Phrase for a situation where a problem disappears when you are about to fix it, but reappears later
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| Aug 6, 2015 at 21:46 | comment | added | supercat | Some years ago, I had the indicated problem; people who called me for technical assistance with things I'd set up for them would often say the thing had a "[myname] Sensor" which would make it work in my presence. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 21:25 | comment | added | KeithS | A more specific but possibly more common form of this is "Mechanic's Syndrome". | |
| Aug 4, 2015 at 18:03 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 4, 2015 at 17:59 | history | answered | JonTheMon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |