I guess due to luck with circumstances, this is often an issue for me. I wonder how normal it is. I was joking about this today with someone and comparing it to the scene from The Simpsons where Mr. Burns wakes up from being shot and randomly starts yelling Homer’s name when asked who shot him. Thirty minutes later someone tried to confront me because I seemed like the most likely candidate for who stole their mail.
Our old one did this same thing so I just unscrewed the handle and flipped it over and used a different, self tapping screw on the broken side and it held together for another few years until we replaced it.