05/01/2026
The Ghost Part
(a fastener, bin 47-C, last cycle-counted in 2019)
The system says I'm here.
I am always here.
I have been here since before the new ERP,
before the site expansion,
before Kevin left.
Someone will come looking
and find only dust
and a label
that remembers me
better than anyone else does.
I am quantity: 1.
I am quantity: 0.
I am both.
I am Schrödinger's O-ring.