Losing stuff by boris

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Losing stuff

POSTED BY: BORIS
UPDATED: Thursday, October 8, 2009 09:12
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 7:51 PM

I'm always losing stuff by either forgetting to pick it up after I've put it somewhere e.g. leaving thumb drives in the university computers; or accidentally throwing stuff away due to not paying attention e.g. my really good earphones I threw in the bin instead of the tissue I planned to chuck. Got home opened my mp3 pouch so I could listen to music, and the Mp3 was wrapped in the tissue and not the earphones)
years ago I left my mobile phone in the freezer over the weekend, at the after school care I used to manage. I had my work phone in one hand while talking to an irrational parent, my mobile phone in my other hand as my boss had rung to warn me about the irrational parent (too late),and I was trying to get icecream out at the same time (with my elbows and chin). I swapped the phone for the icecream in my harangued state (those of you who have to deal with irrational parents will know what i'm talking about) Thankfully the phone lived through the experience(Motorola V2288). I'd like to hear other stories about how stuff goes missing.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 8:09 PM

TRAVELER

I go through spells like that. I will go on searches for my glasses or my car keys. Mostly what I do is have a place for everything and you would think that would work, but no. Like your own experience, I would get a call or a knock on the door and toss my glasses on the most convenient location and then they are lost. I heard one bit of advice about this problem. Whenever you set something down imagine a great explosion. It makes an impression on your mind and that matches with the location you set down the object. I have not used it because I have been having a good spell lately. But life will catch up with me one of these days and my glasses will find their way to the kitchen counter or some other foolish location. So you are not alone in this disfunction. We are many.

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Traveler

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:59 PM

FREMDFIRMA

I never much lose stuff, one of the benefits of a near perfect memory - which only helps, mind you, if some dimwit doesn't MOVE it...
(That being a sledge-hammer to the head kind of offense with me, generally)

On the other hand, my friend Donna has killed like fifteen cellphones, and about half of em the same way - she has a habit of talking on the things while doing dishes and.. BLOOP, another one bites the dust.

My ex loses stuff alla time, and since my number is the only local one in her cellphone, every time she loses it.. *eyeroll* ..it's gotten to where if I pick up a call from her line and hear an unfamiliar voice I'm already like "So where'd she lose it THIS time ?"

And of course, I know exactly which cat steals what, and where they hide stuff - good odds there's a pile of socks in the upstairs office NE corner, put there by squirmy, and the ex is digging around in her room cussing, wondering why she has no socks that match, heh heh heh.

Hell, the girl calls me to ask where stuff is in her cabinets, meh.

-Frem
(keep tellin her she shoulda oughta married me when she had the chance, given that she ACTS like she did!)

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Thursday, October 8, 2009 5:15 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

I work as a maintenance mechanic, over 30 years now. My favorite stunt is, "where the Hell did I put the (whatever)?" If I'm sitting on the floor, about half the time the answer is, "under my butt."And if I start a job on a machine, and then move part of it to the shop, the tool I need will always have been left at the other place. And that's not to mention the fortune in tools that just disappear, and so have to be replaced, or the situations where I hear something fall, can't find it, or can't figure out what it was, only to discover, sometimes days later, that it must have been the $ 25.00 wrench that I gotta have to finish fixing something.
Rarely , I get lucky and find something I 've lost-- once while repairing a flourescent light from a ladder, I set a pair of wire cutters on top of the fixture. Days later, I realized they were gone, and bought new ones. Five years went by, and while we were closing the place down, I had reason to go back up over the same fixture, and there they were...

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Thursday, October 8, 2009 6:05 AM

BYTEMITE

I live like I'm fractured between my past self and my present self. So rarely is it that I can remember ANYTHING, I leave notes for myself everywhere.

Often I don't remember writing the note. It's like having a pen pal. In a sad mentally disturbed sort of way.

I also misplace EVERYTHING, but because I have that tendency, I've also become amazingly good at finding it again. One time, I was bushwhacking through vegetated scrub oak/sage brush hillside on this geology surveying project I was doing. It was COLD that May, that entire week we'd been getting a lot of freezing rain, so I had these awesome waterproof gloves, warm but very thin, really flexible, good enough to rain in damn near a downpour, which I had to do a couple times. Well, I was covering about five miles a day of hillside, over the entire ten day trip I did 50 miles of area. Whew.

As you can imagine, I was misplacing my gloves a lot. One time I had to hike a mile back to find them, over one hill onto another, eventually I did find them on a rock under a bush.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:12 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I can lose sunglasses and keys faster and better than anyone in the 'verse. It's a proven fact. I'm not so fast at losing other things, but I can hold my ground with the best of them.

Too bad it's a talent we can't make a living at, eh?

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Together we are greater than the sum of our parts

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