The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

I have found .... the cordless screwdriver. It was tucked into the back of the understairs cupboard, buried under another couple of things I'd put on top of the box it's in when I was "tidying up".

So the two cordless items are now adjacent to each other, just so I could prove to myself that I had got them both

Still no key though.

Trying to shift a couple of random items on a FB selling page - so I thought I'd take a photo in the garden (too much random clutter behind everything to be able to take a photo indoors) ... trouble is, you can't tell what you're photographing until you get back indoors and load them onto the PC It took two sessions to get something I could use, most photos had half of the items chopped off!

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Daft question - you have checked that it's not still in the mailbox lock, haven't you?

Yes, it's got a large trailing piece of something on it, and I don't tend to let go of the key when I'm opening it.

Had to hook out two letters this morning .... it's possible to reach some if they're a particular size and been put into the box in a particular way by the postie ... I might take a photo in there in a bit, to see if there's anything else.

GDB2222

I wouldn't take a club hammer to it. You'll probably wreck the wall.

Drill the lock just above where the key goes, then turn the cylinder. When it's open, unscrew it from the wall.

Hopefully, you'll find the key before any of that becomes necessary.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I wouldn't take a club hammer to it. You'll probably wreck the wall.

Drill the lock just above where the key goes, then turn the cylinder. When it's open, unscrew it from the wall.

Hopefully, you'll find the key before any of that becomes necessary.

The key will turn up .... it HAS to. And it's not the sort of key that should wander, it's never taken out of the house at all. It's a bit like if you went to the fridge to get milk out for a drink ... put it down, then couldn't find it again. Theoretically the milk lives in the fridge, or maybe on the worktop for 2 minutes if you put it down... but then it's back in the fridge. The key has a similar lifestyle, of being in one place, for one purpose.....

But it is getting tiresome now!

Jackmydad

You've just "put it down for a moment" somewhere. I find stuff in all sorts of strange places when I occasionally lose things. It's thinking about other stuff while you're doing things.
The other mistake is to move stuff from where it's normally kept, because it makes more sense to put it somewhere else!

PasturesNew

Still no key. This is just nuts. It can't have just walked out of the house on its own.

I've covered every square inch of all the places it could've got to within 20' radius of the front door. I've even been out weeding this morning, within a 10' radius of the postbox, in case of ... well, there's no reason for it to be there.... so just "in case". I have the key in my hand, I go to the box, open it, look, close it/lock it, walk away .... put the key back. Except sometimes, if, say, I wanted to do something else in the garden, I'd toss the key inside the house onto the doormat, so it was there when I next stepped inside and could then hang it on its hook.

*sighs*.


It has to turn up .... soon .... really soon .... I'm not "worried" yet, just a bit exasperated at the situation that I've found myself in .... that's occurred due to circumstances I've not yet fathomed out.

Chaitanyacherukuri

Thanks Dear . I'll enjoy this new thread and all those categories of nearly nice or lapsed nice etc - inspired!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Still no key. This is just nuts. It can't have just walked out of the house on its own.

I've covered every square inch of all the places it could've got to within 20' radius of the front door. I've even been out weeding this morning, within a 10' radius of the postbox, in case of ... well, there's no reason for it to be there.... so just "in case". I have the key in my hand, I go to the box, open it, look, close it/lock it, walk away .... put the key back. Except sometimes, if, say, I wanted to do something else in the garden, I'd toss the key inside the house onto the doormat, so it was there when I next stepped inside and could then hang it on its hook.

*sighs*.


It has to turn up .... soon .... really soon .... I'm not "worried" yet, just a bit exasperated at the situation that I've found myself in .... that's occurred due to circumstances I've not yet fathomed out.

One way to find the key is to drill the lock. The key will turn up a couple of minutes later.

PasturesNew

I've got an old supermarket plastic bag, so I dropped some big stones into that (to weight the bottom), then fitted that inside the box and added some blobs of blutack to make it stick to the back of the box - so anything that does go in there can be fished out more easily.

I took a photo first, to check if there was any leaflets/mail in the box and that showed it was empty.

I'd go out and splash brown stuff at the fence, but it's a bit breezy out there and there are black clouds looming.... so CBA.

I've got rid of a tiny bit of rubbish - does anybody else hold onto random leaflets (picked up or shoved through the letterbox) which you think "might read that, that might be handy ...."? Then you haven't, so you end up making a pile of "that might be handy/good to read" leaflets/brochures etc and put them to one side. Then you "tidy up" and think "that might be handy/good to read" .... so the pile gets moved somewhere else.... well, I just went through it all and it all went into the recycling (except the two random phone bills that'd got scooped up in the pile at some point).

There was a garden centre one that I thought "might flick through that, just to look at the nice things one could have in one's garden if you had the money" - there was a Christmas food brochure that I thought "might be a couple of nice sounding recipes in that". There was an adult education leaflet that I'd flicked through and thought "nothing in there", but then held onto so I could "go through it properly to check"..... it all adds up.

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

One way to find the key is to drill the lock. The key will turn up a couple of minutes later.

Oh yes, guaranteed :T:T:T