Frustration....

[aberal]

How do you measure frustration levels?

I ask, because this evening, in order to readjust my saddle slightly, and finding difficulty in getting the allen key to engage in the saddle/seat pin, thought, no problem - turn the bike over. Easy peasy, remove the cycle computer from the bar, set it aside and switch the bike upside down, fit the allen key, return the bike to normal position, fiddle around a bit, level out the saddle and hey presto - finished! Refit the cycle computer and....where the **** is the cycle computer? It's gone, I mean completely gone. Gone, gone, gone. It could only have been set down within (say) a 1-2m radius and could only have been placed on realistically two surfaces - the kitchen table or the kitchen worktop. I can remember taking it off and setting it aside, somewhere - so where the hell is it? It's not on either of these surfaces, which I sweep clean, it's not on the floor. It's not in my pockets. It's not in the tool box. Its not in the bin. Its not in the sink. Its not...its not, frankly anywhere! Seriously - I've swept the place clean, turned it upside down - stopped short of losing my sanity completely and going doolally and stoopidly smashing things up. So - where the **** has this thing gone? It's not possible that it could have disappeared off the face of the earth - so WHERE THE HELL IS IT?

How do you measure frustration levels? I reckon I'm around level 10. Warp factor 01.

 

[Night Train]

Look in (or under) the fridge.

 

[potsy]

Have you got either
a- A dog?
b- Children?
c- A partner that helpfully puts stuff away for you where you will never ever think of looking?
d- Are you sure you really had one to start with?

 

[surfdude]

frustration , in the bedroom

 

[ELL]

you measure it in fructions

 

[Night Train]

Have you checked that it isn't already on the bike?

I do that sometimes, forget I've put something back and then can't find it to put it back.

 

[Speicher]

Is it by the phone? In the middle of doing the adjustments, did the phone ring, you answered it, but it was a wrong number, so you soon forgot about the phone call?

Or you answered the door, so the computer is on the table in the hallway?

 

[Speicher]

On the windowsill, the one behind the sink?

 

[Fab Foodie]

you measure it in fructions

No, you measure it in Perrins, after the late great Reginald Iolanthe Perrin.

Please see link in sig.

 

[TVC]

The pixies have it. Don't worry they'll give it back in the morning.

 

[asterix]

You don't need a cycle computer.

I have 3, the batteries are all flat and they've been sitting in a drawer for years. Last year I did the Raid Pyrenean without one and the only information I missed was knowing the time (I don't wear a watch, have to get the mobile out if I can be bothered).

If you'd never had a cycle computer your frustration level would be zero.

 

[fossyant]

I do that all the time - usually a tool. I have a tool box for bike stuff, a magnetic Park tool tray, and another tray on the workstand - why, when I put a tool down does it vanish. It's that 'P' fairy venturing into new mischief.

 

[aberal]

Well here we are in the cold light of day and still no sign... Thanks for all your useful comments though.

I'm more and more finding myself subscribing to the pixie theory.

 

[beanzontoast]

Mrs B always laughs when I lose something, because after about 2 mins of looking, I give up and say: "Oh well, just have to buy a new one then!" Upon which she generally takes over looking and finds whatever it is in a few mins.

I can always tell when I'm frustrated with any task because I start thinking about all the things I could be doing instead of messing about with the thing that's preoccupying me. That means it's time to give up!

 

[steve52]

i once spent an hr looking for my glasses getting angryer and angryer at my nearest and dearest giggling atme!!! then i had to eat humble pie ,i was wearing them