Lost my tape measure

[coreybv]

Re: Lost my tape measure

I've hunted round my office for my mobile while I'm talking on it!

Yep, I've done that, too.

Here's one:

One morning last summer I walk out the door to go to work. I unlock my truck, get in, and start it. Then I get my coffee cup situated in the cupholder, fish my smokes out of my pocket and light one up, then reach back in my pocket for my keys. Oh crap! Not there! I check the other pocket. Not there, either.

So I go back in the house and spend 10 minutes looking for my keys, cussing up a storm, call work and tell them I'm running about 5 minutes late, eventually giving up and waking up my wife to get me her set out of her purse.

As soon as I open the door to head outside my wife says "How is the truck already running if you can't find your keys?"

I would have really preferred to have been the only one to know about that little moment...

 

[bassman284]

Re: Lost my tape measure

I've had a couple of black hole events.

First one, about 7 or 8 years ago I switched from DISH to cable and couldn't remember which cable sticking out of the garage wall was incoming. So I decided to take my small tv out to the garage to check. I unhooked the tv, put the remote in my right front pants pocket and carried the tv out to the garage, a total distance of about 30 feet. Put tv on the boat, plugged in and reached for the remote to switch from antenna to cable. Remote was not in my pocket. Thinking I must have dropped it, I retraced my steps to the family room. No sign of the remote. I spent a long time looking for that remote, going to the extent of looking inside the washer and dryer several times. Never saw that remote again.

The other was a pair of prescription sun glasses. Returned from a trip in the company van and changed from sunglasses to regular so I could drive the van inside the plant to unload some stuff. Drove back out and parked the van in its space, got my bags out and took them to my car. I went up to my desk to check on a few things, then went back out to go home. Realised I didn't have my sunglasses so I went over to the van to get them. Not there. Never saw them again.

 

[FlaCowboy]

Re: Lost my tape measure

It has got to be them dang Gremlins They even switch the keys on my laptop just to make me mispill...

 

[maproy99]

Re: Lost my tape measure

Long story behind this, I kinda killed my multimeter tonight. :facepalm: My dog has a wireless fence and I decided to move the transmitter a short distance. To test how far my dog could go up the driveway I took the collar and walked up the driveway several times. Since the beeper wasn't going off, I decide to go get the test light that came with the collar. Can't find that because my cat knocked it down and hit it somewhere. I decided to go and get my own test light, but then I remembered that I somehow blew the fuse out on it the last time I messed around with my trailer lights off my truck. (I found out labs like to chew a lot and will chew your light harness) Walking back out planning to just set the collar on the lowest setting and walk until I feel it, I remembered my multimeter. Just set it on high ac voltage and when the voltage jumps up you know you found the spot right? Wrong. I didn't know that a little dog collar would have been shocking my dog with over 500 volts. And with the beeper not working explains why she has been moving back towards the house the past few weeks. Having fried my multimeter, I told the woman of the house where the spot is. (She was sitting with the dog) The spot is about a foot past where she decided to sit with the dog and I sat the collar down to go see if I could fix my multimeter. Just so happens it was close enough to go off and she kinda touched it with her hand. Now she is sore and we are getting an underground fence...................I'm not allowed to install it myself either. (Women and their willingness to spend my hard earned $)

 

[saumon]

Re: Lost my tape measure

Thoses items have a form of intelligence wich is directly related to their price. Ever notice how, no matter what you do, you can't get rid of theses $1 flimsy utility knife or el cheapo half retracting plastic cased measuring tape while, in the meantime, you can't find your $20 Olfa NH1 knife or Stanley tape?

Costly => Wiser => Better to hide themselves!

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