Certainly made me chuckle. On our very first ever tri that my wife and I participated in, anything that could go wrong did go wrong. One of the best cases of Murphy's Law ever. One of the many things was when we went thru bike tech inspection she was missing a handlebar plug and they weren't going to let her race until we found one. Without this $2.00 plastic plug her bike wouldn't be considered as "safe to ride". Ran around frantically with everything else that was going wrong. First tris are stressful enough without this happening. Found one at the last moment and since her bike was then no longer dangerous with a missing handlebar plug, we did get to do our first tri together.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/...intenance/plugs.html
http://www.slowtwitch.com/...intenance/plugs.html