This is why women should just stay in the kitchen and leave the real work to the men. (I'm still bitter about being told in 1997 by a construction foreman that I hammer like a girl.)

A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside floated away. It was one of the largest items ever to be lost by a spacewalker, and occurred during an unprecedented attempt to clean and lube a gummed-up joint on a solar panel. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper was just starting to work on the joint when the mishap occurred. She said her grease gun exploded, getting the dark gray stuff all over a camera and her gloves. While wiping off herself, the white, backpack-size bag slipped out of her grip, and she lost all her other tools.

"Oh, great," she mumbled.

Really? 'Oh great'? That's all you can come up with after you've just lost a bag of tools that could potentially (a) damage your ship, (b) damage the space station, or (c) miraculously re-enter the atmosphere and descend in a flaming ball of metal and fabric only to nail some poor unsuspecting pedestrian. (Get it? Nail?) Anyway, somehow I have a feeling Heidemarie had a few choice words to say, and "great" wasn't one of them - the accuracy of that quote is highly suspect.

Earlier, the spacewalkers spotted a screw floating by, but were too far away to catch it. "I have no idea where it came from," Stefanyshyn-Piper told Mission Control. Mission Control said the screw was not considered a serious hazard, but did not immediately elaborate on the missing tool bag. Flight controllers were tracking its location in orbit.

Sure, plausible deniability. Talk about getting screwed. Hopefully they let her back in the shuttle.