Man looking

[klondike]

Yesterday I wanted to use a meter I had used a couple of days before. I went to where it is always put and it wasn't there.

I thought of where I'd used it last just a few days earlier - a table that is a general work space usually cluttered with odds and ends and periodically gets a radical purge with everything put back where it should be. Quite often in the bin. It wasn't there. I checked it hadn't somehow fallen to the floor at the back. It hadn't. I carefully looked all over promising myself that a purge was coming. It wasn't there.

I went back to where it should have been. Nope. I then went over everywhere I might have put it. Nope. Then all the places I'd never have put it. Nope. This process got repeated a couple of times. No joy. Assuming that the wormhole to another universe had opened once more I gave up, used another meter instead (as I keep losing them I have several each in their own home).

Last night I thought I'll have one last look where it should be and got everything out. It was inside one of the baskets I'd bought to tidy up the pile of odds and sods that make me keep losing things.

The moral. Don't try to tidy up.

If any of this seems familiar then you are a man.

[GrannyMac]

Where's my (insert any item)??  Often asked by men to whatever woman is fortunate enough to live with them. 💖

[Ashy]

Thank you. I have tried to explain this to my wife but she does not understand.

[Alex]

Where's my (insert any item)??  Often asked by men to whatever woman is fortunate enough to live with them. 💖

Nine times out of 10 the item was where he'd already looked ! 

[CHF]

My hubs once, in a Dr's surgery, asked me how old he was......

[klondike]

I briefly lost a ladder today 

[Alex]

How can you lose a ladder ? 

[GrannyMac]

In another stocking...? 🫣

[Scrumpy]

Lost my motor in a multi storey car park..
I only knew it was silver grey.. Couldn't even remember the reg number..
I still do know the reg number of my motor..

[klondike]

How can you lose a ladder ? 

That ladder is one of those pull up ones. I always left it in a specific place in the cellar. It wasn't there. I looked in the shed and it wasn't there either.

There is a narrow bit of cellar (runs under the hallway above). Years ago my grandchildren were adept at putting on the cellar light and getting a tinned drink. They weren't so adept at turning the light off. There are a lot of lights in the cellar and they could be on for days if I didn't go there. I rewired the lights so that the light up top only turned the one one down the steps then there were two switches down there - one for the main cellar one for the little alley bit and I rarely put that light on. It was in there invisible. I put it back there as it is tidier. I'll probably forget next time too.

Moral: Again. Don't Tidy.

[Mups]

Klondike,  I reckon you are writing this down, so that when you lose your stuff again next week,  you will be able to look back on your posts and remember where you put it again.   

[klondike]

Only if I remember where I wrote it...