When I was packing and unpacking during the moving process there were USB cables everywhere. I couldn't get away from them. Now I need one and there aren't any to be found!
that's a perfect example of Flagle's Law of the Perversity of Inanimate Objects:
Any inanimate object may be expected, at any time, to behave in a manner that is entirely unexpected and totally unpredictable for reasons which are completely unknown or thoroughly obscure