Have you ever had something inexplicably disappear...?

[Highlander]

... and then when you give up on it, it just as inexplicably re-appears...?

I "lost" my Ipod a couple of weeks before Christmas... as I am so absent-minded (always have been) I always left the little piece of ali and silicone in one of a very few places - by the PC, on my DVD (book) shelf, on a shelf by the PC, or (when working) in a pocket in the van's door - well, it just upped and went - felt sure I had dropped it into the recycling bin, which was collected that morning...

So, I was researching a second-hand one off eBay, pending this months pay-day, planning to buy one this week...

Thursday last... whilst setting up the sat-nav (lifting it out of the same door pocket) I spied at the bottom of the pocket, my red Ipod...

I had totally emptied that pocket... it... was... not... there...

Anyway, I listened to my entire Foghat collection on a return trip to Manchester Fedex yeasterday (on call this weekend = 11 1/2 hour round trip of 450 miles to fix an alarm system) so thoroughly enjoyed the trip rather than listen to Classic FM all the way (we do not have any US FM Rock type stations in the UK, imo) there and back... (to Al's James Gang reference, elsewhere... "Turn Me Over - Play Me Again"  )

Not the first time this has happened in our household - 3 "red" items disappeared that month - I was sitting on one of our sofas in the lounge on Christmas day, with the family, and put down a pair of red-handled scissors beside me for a moment, and they disappeared - we took the sofa apart - not... there... still not had the other 2 "red" items back... Certainly can offer no explanation as to why or how this happened - I can offer no explanation as to where it went, or why it came back, but thank you anyway mischief-maker... 

[Dave W]

Yes, it's happened to me. And what's really puzzling is when it's in plain sight and you overlooked it.

It's the gremlins.

[OldManC]

It's the gremlins.

Yeah, those little bastards live at my house too...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Everyone throws red stuff at the Red Rocker when he's onstage.
Did someone in your household go see Sammy Hagar, Ken?

The items probly wouldn't be seen again tho if that was the case.

Very mysterious.

I think you may have a case of CRS, like me.

Can't Remember Shite!

[Highlander]

LOL...

Yeah, I can be a lot like that, Terr, but in this case the place where I left it was stripped - not there - definitely... just no answer but the old gremlins...

err... and yeah, seen ol' can't drive 55 a few times...

Never did get the thing about "RED" though - anyone know...

Talking about gremlins... back in '79 there was a Pan-Am 747 that landed at Heathrow with a hole blown in the outer cowling of the engine - the generator had blown stright through it - just not physically possible - loads of us (engineers) went to view this and just could not believe what we saw...

[Pilgrim]

I tend to put things in particular places, and may have trouble finding them when they're out of place.  I often remember where I put them regardless, but not always.  Car keys are a favorite.......

[Freuds_Cat]

Ken you are obviously suffering from a domestic proximity dimensional shift in conceptual paralaxis – which, as we all know is the detachment of the axis of the theoretical conception from the axis of the actual existential perspective of the thinker.


Now that thats cleared up...............  Lunch! 

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Never did get the thing about "RED" though - anyone know...

Talking about gremlins... back in '79 there was a Pan-Am 747 that landed at Heathrow with a hole blown in the outer cowling of the engine - the generator had blown stright through it - just not physically possible - loads of us (engineers) went to view this and just could not believe what we saw...

As for RED:



As for the hole...maybe a UFO blasted it?

[Iome]

too much weed maybe? 

[rahock]

I have a cat with cleptomaniac tendencies and an odd sense of humor. She gets a real kick out of taking stuff and hiding it in her little pretend fort or under the refridgerator. Anything she can carry is fair game, pens, pencils , lighters , glasses, small tools, razors, small fruits and vegetables etc.
Come on over some time and take a look under the fridge 
Rick

[Deathshead]

too much weed maybe? 

Thats what always seems to dissapear!,

[uwe]

too much weed maybe? 

Listening to Foghat is to blame.

[Highlander]

Hmm.. I resemble that remark... but the closest I come to weed is in the front borders... (unless you count those odd little shoots that appear from the bird seed every so often...)

And Bret... "... and Kenny looks after the sheep dip..."
Strewth... where'd ya get all them long werds from, Sport...? Just don't forget the sherry for the Sheilas, and less of the logical positivism... 

[Freuds_Cat]

Ok Ok fair enuf, just call it dimensional drift and be done with it. 

[Highlander]

(I'm still trying to figure out where to put the tea... )