Once upon a time, there was a programmer named Bob who was working on a complicated project. One day, he was debugging some code and noticed that one of his functions wasn't working properly.He spent hours poring over the code, trying to figure out what was wrong. He checked every line, every variable, and every function call. But no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find the problem.Finally, he decided to take a break and get some fresh air. As he was walking outside, he suddenly realized what the problem was: he had forgotten a closing parenthesis in one of his function calls.Bob ran back to his computer, fixed the problem, and ran the program again. To his relief, everything worked perfectly.From that day on, Bob always made sure to check his code for missing parentheses. And whenever he saw a colleague struggling with a similar problem, he would always say, "Looks like you've got a case of the missing parenthesis!"