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What's the Weirdest Place You Found Something You Had Lost?
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I don't remember but I am terrible about losing things you really need,especially my keys and driver's license. Fortunately I live with a guy who only needs to ask himself, "If I were Becca's ______, where would I be?" and within five minutes, he finds it.
I've left things like house keys in the freezer too, Aynge. I once lost a glove, which seemed to have disappeared into nowhere. Turned out my dog ate it. It reappeared eventually and did no harm to the dog, although the glove was not exactly usable anymore.
A whole glove!? Wow. I'd think that would choke it.
It was one of those knit woolen gloves, and he was a very big dog, 100 lbs of Labrador Retriever and not an ounce overweight. (This is my previous Lab, who passed away a few years ago, not my current one). He was always eating weird stuff like that. Never caused him any distress. I miss him.
I once read about a dog that had eaten one of those big butcher knives. The family'd left it stuck in a big cake and gone out. When they got back the whole thing was gone. They had the dog x-rayed and behold, there it was. The dog was absolutely fine.
Mine never ate anything quite that dangerous. He did once manage to swallow an entire tin of anchovies, unopened. We were pretty worried and brought him to the vet right away. The vet figured the best thing to do would be to induce vomiting by giving him hydrogen peroxide. Normally about a cup of it will do the trick. They ended up going through two bottles before it finally worked. My vet still talks about it.
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I left my keys in the fridge once.. in the bowl with the strawberries. I also found my cell phone in a garbage can inside a kroger grocery bag that I used as a trashbag in my car during a road trip. I was in the middle of said road trip (and in the middle of nowhere Texas) and decided to clean out my car. After searching my car inside out for almost an hour, the gas station attendee let me borrow her cell phone to call my cell phone. That's when I realized it was in the garbage can (which fortunately was empty, except for my kroger bag).
My car keys, in the ignition, with all of the doors locked, in the parking lot of the Maple Theater at the premiere of "The Kids Are Alright."
People leave weird things on/next to the copier at work. Lipstick. Food. Purses. Medication. I think people stop at the copier on their way to their offices and forget they had things with them.
The Great Gift Card Debacle of 2009June 19th 2009:
My girlfriend and I were heading home after my brother's wedding rehearsal dinner. I said "Don't forget to bring the Melting Pot gift card tomorrow."
"I don't have it," she said.
"Didn't I give it to you so I wouldn't lose it?" I asked.
"I don't think so," she said.
"I'm sure I did. Or I meant to. Are you sure you don't have it?" I asked.
"Yes but I'll check when I get home."
I dropped my girlfriend off at her car and headed home, confident that the gift card was in her purse.
June 20th 2009:
I woke up extra early and started looking for the card. I check all my usual hiding spots and came up empty. Satisfied, I called my gf.
"Did you find the card?" I asked.
"No and I tore my house apart," she said.
"Crap. I guess it's lost. I'll look again and if I can't find it, we'll stop somewhere and I'll buy another gift card of some type. If we find the Melting Pot card later, we'll just go there ourselves."
"That sounds okay," she said.
I hung up and resumed my search. While I pretended to be taking the heat for losing the gift card, I was secretly convinced she had lost it. Still, I ransacked my house. I checked the file cabinet, the cabinets under the counter, even the pockets of jackets. Nothing. I manhandled the refrigerator out of it's nook and found nothing besides a dirty patch of floor and a frightening amount of dog hair.
As I cursed and pushed the fridge back, I remembered putting the card on top of the refrigerator for safekeeping. I looked on top of the fridge, even between the pages of the phone books that I never use. Nothing.
I stood in the kitchen staring at the fridge when an idea hit me. I opened the freezer and looked in the small compartment inside the door. There it was, staring back it me in its maroon envelope: the Melting Pot gift card! It must have fallen off the top of the fridge and landed inside the freezer when I opened the door!
Ecstatic, I breathed a sigh of relief and went about getting ready for the wedding. It went off without a hitch but my brother wound up losing the damn gift card when they moved a month later!
So I wonder what psychology is at work that makes the fridge/freezer be the place to put things!
I've very occasionally had to stop myself from putting the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge.
Heidi wrote: "I also found my cell phone in a garbage can inside a kroger grocery bag that I used as a trashbag in my car during a road t..."I lost 7 cell phones in two years. One of them wasn't even mine. I never found any of them. Maybe I accidentally threw one of them away. Weird how I've never lost my iPod though. I've learned my lesson: no more cell phones. Except the one in the Bug Out Bag.
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If I'm spacing out I have to be really careful not to pour orange juice or water into cereal, or water into the coffee grounds in the filter rather into the water tank of the coffeemaker.
My husband had to go over to my sister's one morning. She invited him in and told him to go pour himself a cup of coffee. When he went into the kitchen, the coffee maker was there but no pot of coffee. They found it in the fridge.
looks like there should be a way to drink the coffee before actually making it.
Now if I misplace something the freezer is the first place I look.