The most stupid "sensible place" you've left something.

[roubaixtuesday]

Mostly when I lose something, which is often, I've consciously put it in a "sensible place".

I could provide a very long list of such, but probably the worst ever was my sunglasses, unable to be located at the start of one summer.

A week long search finally located them.

In the attic.

Inside a ski boot.

Where I'd sensibly put them to avoid getting them crushed in the baggage on my way home from skiing.

Thread inspired by @SpokeyDokey and the search for their OHs boots. Perhaps it may even bring a suggestion or two. Are they in the attic inside that box of DIY stuff?

 

[MontyVeda]

the fabric grilles for my bookshelf speakers. I couldn't find them for 15 years and it drove me slightly mental because i knew I'd put them somewhere. I eventually found them behind my hi-fi a couple of years ago, a place so logical it never crossed my mind to look there.

 

[Sharky]

Under the "stupid" classification, put my camera on the roof of the car while I took my jacket off. Got in and drove to the next stop and realised!

But I was also very lucky. The wrist strap had got caught by the door as it closed and it was still on the roof!

 

[gbb]

not the same really but loosely connected...
Early 1980s i worked as a glorified engineering storeman. The stores was full of racks of parts bins, hundreds of them, I knew where every part was kept, every single one of hundreds.
I had a bad accident that saw me in hospital for two weeks, off work for 2 months. During that period we realised I'd lost my wedding band, no idea where it went, we assumed maybe taken off when I was in theatre, lost, stolen, whatever...gone.
About a year later I was doing a stock check at work, every single part counted and recorded.
I stretched up to a particular bin containing some obscure, never used, dusty part, pulled it down, there was my wedding ring .
To this day, I have no idea how it got there, up at the top layer of bins, in a bin I only visited once a year...a complete mystery to this day.

 

[Slick]

When I was newly married I worked offshore and once the honeymoon was over, it was straight back our there. First couple of days of a trip were always a bit fuzzy but after visiting the bathroom, I climbed back up to start working on the flare boom but suddenly became aware my wedding finger felt a but light. I went straight into panic mode when I realised my new ring was missing especially as the rig I was on was covered with Kennedy grating so any dropped object would already be at the bottom of the North Sea. Long story short, I retraced my steps more in hope than expectation and when I finally accepted I would never see my ring again, I pulled off my other glove to find my ring on the wrong hand.

 

[presta]

Under the "stupid" classification, put my camera on the roof of the car while I took my jacket off. Got in and drove to the next stop and realised!

But I was also very lucky. The wrist strap had got caught by the door as it closed and it was still on the roof!

I once saw a car drive past with an open tin of paint on the roof just above the driver's door.

 

[presta]

I once saw a car drive past with an open tin of paint on the roof

Which reminds me of this.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I left/hid £4500 in a LP/record the other year and then couldn't find the record! I spent days thinking that I'd subconsciously given the LP to a charity shop and it'd made someone's day big style. Panic over, I found the record at the back of a wardrobe.

 

[All uphill]

I bought a heavy chain and lock for a cycling trip back in May this year. Stupidly I put it in my packing locked, and put the keys in a safe place.
The day before the trip I couldn't find the keys so I bought another chain and lock. Grrr!

It was at the beginning of December I pulled on my walking boots. Ouch! That's where the keys were!

 

[Juan Kog]

I left/hid £4500 in a LP/record the other year and then couldn't find the record! I spent days thinking that I'd subconsciously given the LP to a charity shop and it'd made someone's day big style. Panic over, I found the record at the back of a wardrobe.

Was that one of your Victor Silvester or Mantovani LP’s ?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Was that one of your Victor Silvester or Mantovani LP’s ?

No, it was I think Sham 69, from my rebellious youth days.

 

[Juan Kog]

Years ago I was advised that a missing item is always in the last place you look .
So now I always look in the last place first.

 

[Arrowfoot]

The hardest part at least for me is not the cost of replacing a missing item but sheer frustration and self doubt. It can be agonising.

 

[ColinJ]

Specs...

Usually, resting on top of my head, but one particularly stupid hiding place was in my right hand while I was wandering around looking for them!

 

[sheddy]

Managed to leave a large screwdriver on the car roof, drove 6 miles home. It only fell off with a clatter at the penultimate corner.
I like to think it demonstrates that I'm really a smooth driver...