that's such a mug rack
One terrible few months when our oldest was a baby, we were moving out of a rental house and into our own. The landlord went nuts on us, the baby wasn't eating, we had just written some very large checks and there was no sense of safety and security in the world. Baby's weight had dropped 3 pounds since birth. We were beside ourselves.
One particular way the landlord went nuts was to become obsessive in every case where we had fixed something. The thermostat, which we replaced because the old one was broken. He wanted us to bring back the old one, put it on the wall, and called us thieves for not doing so. We didn't even tell him of the thousand dollars of work underneath his lawn to keep his bamboo from spreading into the grass. But the worst thing was the mug rack. This is a typical 1970s era mug rack, accordion style, with little pegs that you hang the mugs on. The pegs were weak from much use, and we brashly threw it away when it failed on us and broke several dishes (because it hung right above the dishwasher). The landlord would not accept money for these infractions. He would not name his price. He wanted his mug rack back. Only then could we be free of the property. We sent our family on crusades to full price retail as well as thrift stores. We went online. I hired the company concierge to find one. It had to be exact. We could not replace the mug rack, due to inherent design problems a mug rack such as that could not be found, as they disintegrate over time. We wept, for this and other things we were trapped with, lost all perspective, and clung to the resolution of this problem as the thing that would restore safety to our world.
I would like to say I am grownup enough that this would never happen to me again, but every transaction has a risk of someone going nuts. Even getting in your car and driving is a transaction of source, between the triangular points of insurance, car payment, and the law. However, now when something happens that is small, yet rocks our world out of its axis of security, we say "that's a total mug rack." And people overhearing us would certainly wonder, but we don't.