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I gave up looking a Brand NEW flashlight that I used to run some coax cable in my house. I even traced every inch of the cable run and no flashlight. Somewhere in an alternate universe a alien is using my flashlight to look for keys for his 2018 XFGuuuf model space transporter.
 
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Did you check in the veggie drawer of the fridge?
 

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Yep, checked the veggie drawer and it did not Turnip :rolleye:
 

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Try finding a dropped 1/4 drive 10mm socket. I marked a spot where I work on cars with "the Burmuda Triangle" and I have a 25' long, 10' high, and 2'deep shelves on wall I call "the Twilight Zone". Seems everything in these 2 places disappear, at least until you buy another one.
 
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Larry said:
Seems everything in these 2 places disappear, at least until you buy another one.


That's another one of Newton's Corollaries.

My collection of odds-n-ends is referred to as the GOK Pile: "God Only Knows!".
 

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I had given up finding a little magnetic LED light when, one day, weeks later, I opened the hood on SWMBO's Z4 and viola! There it was, sitting on top of the engine!
 

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Always in the last place you look, too! :excitement:
 
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I'm crazy enough that when I drop something and I can't find it, I drop another one on purpose and more often than not, the first one comes out of hiding because it realizes it has a friend to play with! I figure I'm going to have to order one, won't do any more harm if I have to order 2! :D
 

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Pen dropped between bed and headboard. Too far to reach from either side. Its stuck in the space. Can't move it up or down. In a related incident, our kitchen fan stopped working as my wife was frying potato pancakes for Xmas. The kitchen filled with smoke. The fan is located in the roof. I tried to reach it through the duct over the stove with a fishing rod to bang the blades without success. I'll have to call a handyman since my roof climbing days are over. The motor hums but the blades don't turn. This happens every winter now.
 

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Pen dropped between bed and headboard. Too far to reach from either side. Its stuck in the space. Can't move it up or down. In a related incident, our kitchen fan stopped working as my wife was frying potato pancakes for Xmas. The kitchen filled with smoke. The fan is located in the roof. I tried to reach it through the duct over the stove with a fishing rod to bang the blades without success. I'll have to call a handyman since my roof climbing days are over. The motor hums but the blades don't turn. This happens every winter now.

That describes my brain most days - the motor hums but the blades don't turn. :smile:
 
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