It is a truth universally acknowledged that ...

[marknotgeorge]

I'm one of those poor afflicted souls who has a vortex to another dimension hidden in my toolbox. It springs out when I open the toolbox and nestles just there next to me, ready to eat my tools.

 

[winjim]

Ha ha - I do that all the time ...

I find myself standing in the kitchen and wonder why I am there.

Woking
(participial verb)
Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.
source : The Meaning of Liff

 

[slowmotion]

I have about five Stanley knives and the same number of tape measures. They are always somewhere other than the location at which I need one......and a branch of Screwfix is always temptingly near. The same daft situation arises with drill bits. Anyway, life is far too short to spend your time looking for stuff.

 

[keithmac]

I bought a special Snap-on socket for removing the aircon pulley on my car while doing a belt service (really tight space to work in).

Put it "safe" in my toolbox and low and behold when I did the job I couldn't find it.. Ended up scraping my knuckles to pieces getting the pully bolt off.

A year or two later I noticed the Socket was in the top of my toolbox, I'd been looking for a chrome one but it was industrial black finish.. The tool had no other real use so just a waste of money now..

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

...that the weather will be crap at the weekend. Always.

 

[grumpyoldwoman]

...that the weather will be crap at the weekend. Always.

Very true - we have snow!

 

[velovoice]

My mother's saying has always been "You'll find it in the last place you look."
Can't argue with that!

 

[ufkacbln]

... when you finally give up looking for something and just bloody-well buy a replacement, the formerly lost items will turn up, but not before you've used the replacement, so you cannot return it.

In other news, it turns out my 'good set' of bike lights were in the glove-box. Of course - why didn't I think to look there?

The other (less well known) truth is that the P*nct*re Fairy is simply one of a large clan of magic entities whose entire function is hiding things with cloaking spells.

The Allen Key Fairy, Spanner Fairy, and in this case the lights fairy. Your lights were in the twilight that exists between the Fairy world and ours

The Wallet Fairy (se note) then reports the purchase to their colleague who replaces the lights back into our world



(Wallet Fairy

You go for a night out with £10 in your pocket and spend £5 on beer you should have £5 left, but the Wallet Fairy ensures that there is always less than you expect and you only have £3)

 

[KneesUp]

You ONLY have one good set of lights

Not anymore

 

[KneesUp]

I have two odd gloves, both left hand. I know that if I throw them away, the missing ones will turn up.

I once had two pairs of arm warmers. I now have one pair of arm warmers, the left one is large and the right one is medium...

 

[KneesUp]

I will give you £3 including postage for the previously "lost" lights

In the sprirt of Gumtree and Local ads on Facebook

swap4 playstatn tnight m8?

 

[KneesUp]

I have about five Stanley knives and the same number of tape measures. They are always somewhere other than the location at which I need one......and a branch of Screwfix is always temptingly near. The same daft situation arises with drill bits. Anyway, life is far too short to spend your time looking for stuff.

Joking aside, tape measures definitely have some sort of homing device that sends them back to B&Q.

 

[Brains]

... when you finally give up looking for something and just bloody-well buy a replacement, the formerly lost items will turn up, but not before you've used the replacement, so you cannot return it.

In other news, it turns out my 'good set' of bike lights were in the glove-box. Of course - why didn't I think to look there?

Simples!

All you have to do is buy a new bike, you then solve the problem of what to do with your formally spare lights

 

[PeteXXX]

I once had two pairs of arm warmers. I now have one pair of arm warmers, the left one is large and the right one is medium...

How do they do that??

I once lost a merino sock. It turned a few months later jammed up the sleeve of the jacket that was washed at the same time.