Waaaaiiit a minute...

Sometimes, you repeat the same routine again and again for years, until one day, your neurons are aligned in such a way that you have an unexpected insight.
For example: when cooking Chinese noodles, the package says to throw in the nests of noodles and, after about 2 minutes of cooking, 'use two forks to pull the nests apart.' I don't know how many thousands of times I obediently followed these instructions without thinking.
Until one day, when I suddenly thought: Forks. Forks. For Chinese noodles. How do the Chinese pull this off? They don't have forks!
The enigma remains.