How fast can you lose something??

[wawajake]

Its when you lose something and you have sort of blamed your wife , that gets you in trouble, especcially when you then find it and you need to somehow make it look like it was in place that your wife left it..........
That didn't work out so well a few years ago , when my wife and I could not decide who had lost the cordless phone . We had a pair of them and one went missing, I assumed the wife had lost it. Six months later I am up on the roof fixing the flashing on a roof vent and I see the cordless phone sitting on top of the brick chimney where I had obviously left it when I was reparging the chimney. It had went thru one winter of snow and ice up there even.

It was too funny for me to try to blame it on the wife.................so I confessed. :ashamed:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Six months later I am up on the roof fixing the flashing on a roof vent and I see the cordless phone sitting on top of the brick chimney where I had obviously left it when I was reparging the chimney. It had went thru one winter of snow and ice up there even.

It was too funny for me to try to blame it on the wife.................so I confessed. :ashamed:

Obviously Santa was using it the previous Christmas eve to check in with the elves and mistakenly left it in his pocket. As he rose from the chimney it fell out, fortunately remaining there until you found it. Now you're a hero, and only a little embarrassed you didn't find it sooner. After all, kinda hard to hear the ringer up on the roof when you tried to use the handset location feature, huh? :confused2:

 

[davrow]

I've thought at times maybe, at my age, I was losing my mind.

Of all the things I've ever lost
I surely miss my mind the most.

 

[TomSeller]

I forgot what I was going to type.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've lost so many gloves -especially for my left hand- that I'm almost ready to attach them together with fishing line, running it through my coat like yarn on a kid's mittens.

If you find gloves or sunglasses hanging in a tree anyplace between Maine and Pennsylvania it means that I was there... Much more permanent than lifting my leg like a dog.

I can't say how many times I've gone to get something which I've seen in the same place for a year only to find that it's disappeared; only to reappear in the exact same place as soon as I'm done needing it or have bought another one.

My best axe is someplace in back of my house, I know right where I put it and have only been searching for about 7years for it. My last dog was a bit of a klepto though, and it's entirely possible that she had it last.

I could write books on key stories, but I'll spare you and only share the one the Ford garage told me about getting a car in to get a flat tire fixed and finding that it had been mounted with a set of keys inside.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

My wife occasionally tells me I lost my mind.
I haven't missed it in years.

 

[newbury]

Its when you lose something and you have sort of blamed your wife , that gets you in trouble, especcially when you then find it and you need to somehow make it look like it was in place that your wife left it......<snip>

I learned early on SWMBO never lost, or will lose anything. She put it there on purpose and I forgot to tell her. I on the other hand get blamed for every lost item in the house, even if I was out of the country when it disappeared.

Yesterday I lost the headphones she has for her computer so I gave her mine. Coincidentally she had just done major cleanup of the area they were last seen in, but I lost them.

 

[tcreeley]

Getting out of the car I thought I dropped my glove in front of the seat. Reaching around I couldn't find it. I got out to look better and my wife asked what I was looking for. I told her my glove. She said - you have them both on!

 

[Morning Wood]

Executive functioning disorder.

 

[Hilbilly]

I swear I spend half my life looking for something I just put down. Every project takes longer now than it did a few years ago because of the "where the heck did I put it down" syndrome.

 

[tcartwri]

This summer I went to change the sewer valves on our RV. Bought the new valve assemblies and got right to it. Promptly dropped one of the o-rings in the grass. Searched and searched on my hands and knees for an hour, took my clothes off, took my boots off.... Nope, no o-ring. Went back to the store and had to buy a whole new valve assembly because they don't sell the o-rings separately. Guess what I did when I got home. Dropped the new o-ring in the grass.....

 

[Gary Fowler]

Yesterday I was repairing the top rollers on a closet pocket door. For some reason I decided to take one of them off the rail but when I was ready to put it back on, it was nowhere to be found. I searched the whole house for 30 minutes or more but nothing. Getting really PO'ed now because nothing can just disappear. Finally I got back in the closet and mimicked taking the roller off and found it on an overhead shelf which I cant remember putting it there at all.

 

[Gary Fowler]

This summer I went to change the sewer valves on our RV. Bought the new valve assemblies and got right to it. Promptly dropped one of the o-rings in the grass. Searched and searched on my hands and knees for an hour, took my clothes off, took my boots off.... Nope, no o-ring. Went back to the store and had to buy a whole new valve assembly because they don't sell the o-rings separately. Guess what I did when I got home. Dropped the new o-ring in the grass.....

Sometimes I have found dropped items by repeating the drop as close as possible but watching closely where the item falls. Many times, the lost item will be very close to the impact point of the new drop.

 

[Mendonsy]

This summer I went to change the sewer valves on our RV. Bought the new valve assemblies and got right to it. Promptly dropped one of the o-rings in the grass. Searched and searched on my hands and knees for an hour, took my clothes off, took my boots off.... Nope, no o-ring. Went back to the store and had to buy a whole new valve assembly because they don't sell the o-rings separately. Guess what I did when I got home. Dropped the new o-ring in the grass.....

The best way to find a lost item is to purchase a replacement. As soon as you do that the lost one will show up!

Yep, told ya!!

 

[newbury]

Sometimes I have found dropped items by repeating the drop as close as possible but watching closely where the item falls. Many times, the lost item will be very close to the impact point of the new drop.

I learned that from a Mark Twain novel, probably Huck Finn, about, well too long ago to count.

For small items I carefully drop an identical item (screw, washer, etc.) near where I thought I dropped the "lost" item. This helps in determining how far something is liable to bounce plus provides a precise visual recognition pattern for the item. Usually works.

 

[Oldpath05]

This is how I learned to speak in tongues and find out how far I can throw a hammer after I find it. What helps me is florescent color duct tape or bright paint markers on tools and things, my tool belt/apron helps too, has a place for the tape measure and my other jingle jangles.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I put my car keys in my pocket this morning. Five minutes later, I started a 15 minute search for them. LOL

 

[downsizingnow48]

Tape measures. I have 2 in the truck 2 in the garage 2 in the shop and lose them all the time. Usually in plain sight.

 

[s219]

I often go back and forth between the saws in my workshop and the project site on my property. I keep one tape measure next to the saws in the workshop and another on my belt or at the project site. But it seems like the tape measures always try to migrate to meet up at one or the other location, so I will have no tape measure nearby when I actually need to measure something or make a cut. Pencils play that game with me too. I need to start attaching stuff to my body with one of those chains old ladies use for their glasses.

 

[phiferpharm]

Let's see.. 4 cordless drills, 2 corded drills, 3 circular saws, 2 jig saws, numerous hammers collected over the past few years, divided by a grownup son who lives next door. Yup, I can lose something pretty darn fast at times...