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Originally posted by selogic:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
The other day I was making a pot of gumbo and thought I'd put in some Old Bay. I know I had a can in the cupboard. I know I did.

I went through that cupboard and the one next to it twice. I went through a separate spice rack. I went through a large container I keep bulk spices in for refills. I went through the pantry. No Old Bay.

The next day I opened up the original cupboard and there, staring me in the face, was the can of Old Bay.



Apparently I have ghosts.

Ditch the Old Bay . Use a real Cajun / Creole seasoning in your Gumbo .

Blasphemy

About a year ago I tore my house apart looking for the spare battery and charger for my Canon camera. I even called the kids in PDX if I left it up there. Finally gave up and bought a new charger and battery.

Fast forward to last week, there blending in with all my gun stuff was the missing charger and battery still plugged in to the strip for the Dillon press LED light. All charged up after a year.

Yes many times but I find it only after I have bought a replacement for it.

Last year I lost my 12" crescent wrench. Couldn't figure out where it was. A few months later, I changed the oil in my wife's car. Opened the hood and there it was on the windshield shelf under the hood.

Good thing too, because I needed it for that job!

I did lose a spare house key a year ago. Earlier this summer, it was time to dig out some shorts. There in the pocket was the spare key. I had just made 2 more spares the day before.

Tony.

A few months back I had stripped down a S&W revolver for cleaning. When putting back together, PING went the trigger return spring. In my 45 years of working with S&W revolvers, I have never had a trigger return spring get away from me. Looked everywhere, work bench (top, middle shelf, and underneath), top section of my rolling tool box, etc. Moved everything away from garage walls, used a magnet, swept the garage floor and couldn't find it. Ordered a new one and spent about 5 times the cost of the spring for the shipping amount. Couple weeks later look down and its laying in plain sight on the garage floor right in front of my work bench. Now I have and extra, ha.

Sometime in the last few years I took my stainless/gold metal band off my Rolex Yachtmaster and replaced it with a leather band which was much more comfortable to wear for me. The band was placed on a dresser or in a drawer and in my room. I've looked everywhere and nada, I searched several times, everywhere I could think of, after all, it's just a bedroom. Did my cat knock it off the dresser behind something, did it sprout legs and walk away?? I'm completely at a loss. I believe it may show up at the most unlikely time in a place I'd never expect.

The watch was sold to David here and I told him that if I ever do run across it, I will send it along as requested by him.

Maybe the Bermuda tip of the triangle cuts across my corner of the house with my bedroom

I've lost several pocket knives over the years... some were cheap ones that I didn't lose a lot of sleep over. One was a nice ZT I bought here on the forum... that one hurt.

I did find two over the years, and both were in the same place - clipped to the seatbelt in my truck. Being a lefty, I carry them clipped to my left front pocket, and apparently the seatbelt does a great job at getting under the clip and slipping it out as it retracts.

Now, when one turns up missing, its the first place I look.

Recently I reorganized part of my garage and moved a bunch of router bits.
Looking for them over the weekend and they are nowhere to be found.
Ugh.

More than ten years ago (here on the job) my favorite little hand chuck disappeared. I searched high & low all over the shop. Alas, it was nowhere to be found. About a month ago I was training a guy who didn't even work here back then. Lo and behold, he opened the (company) toolbox at his workstation & there it was. I snatched it up & proclaimed, "This is mine." He said it was there when he started & never knew what it was for. It felt good to have it back. I'd had it for over thirty years, minus the time it was gone.

When I retired, I gave away a lot of stuff. I gave one of my sons one of my nice watches. He promptly lost it and didn’t say anything about it.

Fast forward a couple of years: my wife is digging down in the couch looking for the tv remote, and pulls out the watch.

I took a picture and texted my son with the message: Anyone missing a watch?

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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:
Needless to say, the movers were pretty surprised …

Reminds me of another.

The wife’s family had a hard time during the Great Depression. Consequently, her family “DNA” still includes a mistrust of banks.

A few years back, my company was relocating me and the movers were at the house packing our stuff.

One of the movers walks up to the wife, hands her an envelope, and tells her it fell out of the mattress when they were packing the bedroom. It contained $1,200 the wife had squirreled away and forgotten about.

When she called and told me, I told her to make sure she gave those movers a very generous tip.

Our last move, I packed up everything myself and did inventory. We rented a place for a year until we figured out where we wanted to live. Upon moving into the new domain, and unpacking for weeks, I realized I was missing one bo, It contained my first B&W photo I took at the NY Worlds Fair '65...and two special painting. I went nuts looking for it over months and checked every box...nada. The or twelve months later I went looking just for the hell of it. BINGO - one sealed bon in a closet had my treasures...I know darn well I look into all the boxes.

Just about every morning, I lose something. I spend time looking for it. It's a hit or miss whether it shows up later. And if it does show up, I may not remember I was looking for it.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Just about every morning, I lose something. I spend time looking for it. It's a hit or miss whether it shows up later. And if it does show up, I may not remember I was looking for it.

You must be about my age . . . .

Some years ago on a tour of Paris, France, I was pickpocketed on the subway. Of course, I shut down my credit cards immediately and when I got home got replacements for everything. About a month later, my wallet came in the mail, minus the cash and credit cards but with everything else intact. Apparently the thief dropped it in a mailbox after taking the good stuff.

flashguy

I had a pair of Blue Point straight cutting tin snips disappear out of my toolbox about 6 months ago. I scoured the garage several times looking for them and came up empty handed. Fast forward to this past weekend. Digging thru a box of random hardware left over from several jobs and, lo and behold, the tin snips magically appeared. I haven't the faintest idea how they ended up there but at least I resisted the urge to buy a replacement pair on the hope the original pair would find their way home.

Lost my Chris Reeves Small Sebenza in July. Could not find it anywhere. I was pretty sure I used it in the house and put it down after cutting something... Replaced it with a Large Emerson A100, lost that when we took our dogs on a hike on Labor day. Found my Sebenza under my truck seat when looking for the Emerson. Still hoping I find that Emerson now, but I think its gone.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

Some years ago on a tour of Paris, France, I was pickpocketed on the subway.

Hah! Me too. 1977 or 1978, living / working in Barcelona, Metro in Paris while on a vacation trip.

Don't know if this counts but one day I was walking to my Toyota truck in a parking lot. I happened to pass a similar truck which was missing a cap on the wiper arm. It covers the nut that retains the arm to the wiper transmission apparatus. That cap can get lost in high pressure car washes. That's how I lost mine. It is right in front of the driver's field of view.

Anyway, It is a dealer part and comes in a pack of two. I bought a set and used one. The other went into my glove box. I retrieved that cap and put it on the other truck. I chuckled to myself at the idea of the other driver wondering how the cap reappeared on the wiper arm.....

Same general topic of returning things, but definitely a different take. This falls under - you have to see it to really appreciate it. Some years ago I saw a black and white bit with WC Fields where he explains how he got the nickname "Honest John". He explains that he was in a bar talking to a guy who happened to have a glass eye. The glass eye falls out of his head and rolls away. No one can find it, so the guy leaves without his eye. Before he leaves WC (John) finds the eye and returns it to the owner.

So WC (John) explains about all of the compliments he received because he was honest enough to return the eye instead of keeping it. He ends by explaining that ever since then he was known as "Honest John."

Yeah I know the written version doesn't seem that funny, but when I saw it on film I thought it was hilarious. I was never able to find the bit again on YouTube or elsewhere

I have lost two Puma pocketknives that I never found .