How fast can you lose something??

[sfloggie]

Older I get the more I forget, so I now have several shirts, coats and pants that are the same. And I have three to four of the same tool. At least I remain consistent in what I like!

 

[tcreeley]

There is a road to the lake near us. My wife found a wallet and some cash - 20 or so in it. The address was 20 miles away. She mailed it off and a few days later got a lovely card back and 20 dollars.
Another time I found a wallet in the road and recognized the name of one of my son's friends. I drove it over - 4 miles. He said he was glad to get it missing almost a week.

 

[PILOON]

I also 'lost' a wallet some time ago.
Started the cancellation process and suddenly found it.

I knew the narrow time frame as well as very slim location.(Out of car to post office and back)
I walked the space 4 times and tore the car apart with no luck.

I later found the wallet jammed between the driver's backrest and door post at about a foot above seat height.
That car was one of those with sort of overstuffed sofa look.
Tendency is to look down and not up for lost items.

 

[PILOON]

'nother lost story.

Found a lost wallet, it was at a site of vandalism and LEO's sure liked that 'lost and found report'.
Bet that perp now has his wallet chained to his belt!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Oh no! I was going to write something and I forget what it was!!! :shocked:

 

[DrRod]

My ex-wife used to clean up the house by pushing everything into laundry baskets. Clear the coffee table into a basket. Clear the kitchen counter into a basket. Clear the TV stand into a basket. These would pile up in the basement and every so often I would go through them. In a way it was like a treasure hunt. Lots of phones, remotes, Gameboys, gloves, keys, and of course cash [never less than $50, usually much more]. But what a way to live.

I now live on a rule of "no loose paper." Any paper that comes into the house [e.g. mail, manuals, magazines, et al] goes to my desk immediately where I'll sort it all out when ready. It may take a bit but I will always find it because it can't be anywhere else. And the rest of your house stays cleaner and more orderly.

But my workbench is a black hole. I can set a hammer down and its gone immediately. Maybe we just look past things somehow but parts and tools seem to just take off on their own.

I buy reading glasses constantly [Dollar General is a great source for these] yet they migrate on their own. Lighters do the same thing. I leave these sorts of things in strategic places so they are available when I need them but slowly and surely they ebb away.

And then there are cotter pins. I keep a boxed assortment in my workshop and a select few in the truck. These I seem to hold onto.

End of screed.

 

[square1]

i found a wallet once. Opened it up and found my driver license. I had forgot I lost it

 

[chad22]

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!

Times a thousand. That works every time.

Or if you lose something. The best thing to do is just stop looking for it. The thing your looking for will usually show up when your not looking for it. lol

I misplaced a hammer last night while removing some plaster and lath boards in the bathroom of the house I'm remodeling.

I searched everywhere for that hammer last night. Well after about 5 minutes of searching for the hammer I gave up and went to my truck and got my other hammer.

Well when I walked back into the bathroom to remove some more lath and plaster. I noticed the hammer I lost was sitting on the floor next to the toilet. lol And I had looked right in that spot. How I didn't notice it. I'm not sure. lol

I found the hammer I lost after going out and getting the other one.

 

[davrow]

And I had looked right in that spot.

We call it 'perversity of the inanimate'.

We're both pretty good about putting things 'where they belong'. Often as not though, when we go to find it, it isn't there. We'll look everywhere, including 'where it should be'. After we've played around enough to placate whatever it is that controls these things... we'll look at where it belongs again, and lo and behold! There it is.

Laughing at us.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I heard a story last week on the radio about pay phones. Some lady was spotted at a pay phone and this guy (I guess she was a looker) stopped to ask her if she needed help. Seemed she lost her cell phone in the car and was calling it, to locate it!

Everything should have a phone number or an IP address to ping it.

Sometimes I get it into my head, that the thing I am looking for is one color, when it's not. In that case, you can be staring at the thing and never acknowldege that it's there. Just another bug in the brain's software that was never fixed!