How fast can you lose something??

[Bird]

I would never lose anything myself. However, as I've told my wife, I've had a serious problem for several years with the gremlins hiding things from me.

 

[Mace Canute]

One time I wanted to do a setup on my mill and I couldn't find any of the six nuts that come in the hold down kit.

I looked for months and couldn't find them until I needed to use a faceplate on my lathe and there they were! I had previously used all of them on it as balancing weights and when I finished up I removed the faceplate and put it away without removing the nuts and putting them back in the holder.

I've set things down on the bench only to lose them a minute later and then magically they appear again right where I swear I had just looked. If I was superstitious I'd swear I had a poltergeist haunting me but being a man of reasoning and science I realize the items disappearing and reappearing was just evidence of mini wormholes moving them through time and space.

The absolute worst was one time I had just picked a small part up when the phone rang and I answered it. When the call was over I hunted all over for that part only to realize I was holding it in my hand all the time.

 

[k0ua]

I have found that the quickest way to find something that I have 'misplaced' is
to go out and buy a replacement. The misplaced item is sure to reveal itself
as soon as I return home with the replacement. :duh:

I searched for the oil filter for my JD lawn tractor for maybe an hour. I gave up and went to Wally world and bought another. As I brought it into the shop I noticed the one I already had hanging on the peg board, still in its package just smiling at me.:irked:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I looked for months and couldn't find them until I needed to use a faceplate on my lathe and there they were!

I'll have to remember that one, MC. I have the exact same hold down kit...

 

[tcreeley]

Once a year I seem to lose my wallet in my back pocket. I start tearing things apart, getting angry because I am usually in a rush!

 

[SPIKER]

I lose so much stuff I dont even remember posting all of these threads or starting the thread, Just sure these stories are all about ME in here... lol (See my tag line, have had it for years.)

I have a hard time anymore working on (insert anything) as I'll take off a part, need a different wrench/socket or extension take the part over to bench to get the wrench that fits, set the part down, somewhere in between... by time I'm done 3/4 of my tools are gone, the engine is missing off the (insert anything) piles of parts are laying around and I have no clue what I was doing... :/

Mark

 

[chad22]

I once lost a cellphone. Found it a few hours later in the fridge. lol I for some reason sat it down on the shelf in the fridge next to the milk.

 

[TomSeller]

I lose so much stuff I dont even remember posting all of these threads or starting the thread, Just sure these stories are all about ME in here... lol (See my tag line, have had it for years.)

I have a hard time anymore working on (insert anything) as I'll take off a part, need a different wrench/socket or extension take the part over to bench to get the wrench that fits, set the part down, somewhere in between... by time I'm done 3/4 of my tools are gone, the engine is missing off the (insert anything) piles of parts are laying around and I have no clue what I was doing... :/

Mark

Just put whatever engine parts you can get to fit together and see if you can get it to run. You might make the next ecoboost.

 

[s219]

My wife is half my problem. When she sees something I left somewhere she puts it in a drawer or on a shelf. No rhyme or reason as to where.

My wife is the same way! Drives me nuts. Though since we moved into a new house and had a baby, she has started accidentally hiding stuff on herself now, which I find hilarious. She's been a little more careful about it lately, handing stuff to me to put away rather than just throwing it in a drawer or shelf.

 

[Clint S]

I lost a big mag light 2 months ago while leaning the chimney. Stoll have not found it..............