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  • GreyQueen
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    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    I know falling down stairs is a serious matter, and I shouldn't, but that made me :rotfl:
    ;) That's cos yer a bad lad.

    It was Imm@c wasn't it?
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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  • jk0
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    edited 23 October 2013 at 9:53PM
    bluebag wrote: »
    It's with loads of my stuff in the cupboard at the end of the universe.

    Ahh, it's frustrating isn't it?

    I have a little story about this. About ten years ago I bought an immersion heater spanner. I keep it in my old school tuck box. A few years ago I needed it, and went to get it out.

    Strange, it's not there. I took every thing out of the box and put it on the floor. I had to call a plumber instead.

    Some years later, I looked in the tuck box and guess what I found? This might be explicable if I did not live on my own, and no-one else has access.

    When my friends & I experience this, we joke that the men in blue forgot to put something there, as per this old Twilight Zone:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJGm_8GWYpM
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    When you need more gas, go to B&M.

    They sell a pack of 4 canisters for £3-99, which is the cheapest I've seen.
  • GreyQueen
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    :)jk0, the truly galling thing about living on your own is that you have no one else to blame for these mysterious occurances.

    Except they happen to me, too. So I blame the Biro Thieving Pixies, the Calculator-Disappearing Wizard and the Gnomes who steal whatever it is that I have lost at that moment.

    I've just found a calculator I lost for two weeks. Big button type, about 4 inches square, hardly losable. It had got under the computer monitor and was lurking in the shadows. I swear it wasn't there when I searched my desk but unless it has ambulatory powers, it must've been put there by moi.........

    :o Shamefully, I have had cause to call my own mobile from my landline to find where it had gone by the ringtone.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • bluebag
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    jk0 wrote: »
    Ahh, it's frustrating isn't it?

    I have a little story about this. About ten years ago I bought an immersion heater spanner. I keep it in my old school tuck box. A few years ago I needed it, and went to get it out.

    Strange, it's not there. I took every thing out of the box and put it on the floor. I had to call a plumber instead.

    Some years later, I looked in the tuck box and guess what I found? This might be explicable if I did not live on my own, and no-one else has access.

    When my friends & I experience this, we joke that the men in blue forgot to put something there, as per this old Twighlight Zone:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJGm_8GWYpM

    It's the most infuriating thing ever to know without a shadow of doubt, utmost certainty and the willingness to swear on a stack of bibles that you put it it away safely. But it isn't there !!!

    The number of times I've had the whole house torn apart looking for something, it's ridiculous.

    i am going to label all the 'safe' places in my house. With big yellow stickers and bright red felt tip. So I may smugly never lose anything again.

    Or maybe I just need less junk for it to hide in.
  • elona
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    Maybe it's the Borrowers! ;)
    "This site is addictive!"
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  • bluebag
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    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    I know falling down stairs is a serious matter, and I shouldn't, but that made me :rotfl:

    You are heading for the norty step again aren't you?

    I'm watching you!
  • bluebag
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    elona wrote: »
    Maybe it's the Borrowers! ;)

    Good god!! genius, that's it !!! Phew, I thought for a moment there it was my fault.
  • GreyQueen wrote: »
    :o Shamefully, I have had cause to call my own mobile from my landline to find where it had gone by the ringtone.

    I'll own up to having to do this and from landline to mobile. OH often leaves his mobile in the car. As for me it ends up buried or left somewhere. Sometimes it can be found in the kitchen cupboard as indeed can the home phone. If I multitasking in the kitchen I stand the phone at head height in an open cupboard whist talking to someone and the forget to take it out. Sometimes I've shut people in the cupboard during conversations :rotfl:
  • GreyQueen wrote: »

    ..... :o Shamefully, I have had cause to call my own mobile from my landline to find where it had gone by the ringtone.
    There's nothing shameful about that GQ, everybody does the same. Except it never works for me because I only have mobile reception in the house in a couple of very, very small areas and then only when the wind is in the right direction. Since I have the same problem at work I sometimes wonder why I bother with a mobile at all, but it is useful if I get stuck/lost/hopelessly inebriated while out and about :rotfl:
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