You ever lose something within 12 hours of touching it.

I have started writing notes to myself on my phone that detail where I put stuff. It helps.

 

Good idea, but I think my phone wins the most lost item contest

 

I feel better now./ Bruno.

 

Hell I've looked for my phone when I'm talking on it. CRS syndrome is real.

 

Drive up to gate. Have a set of keys in my hand to open a gate. Get out of truck. Unlock and open gate. Get in truck. Drive truck through gate. Drive 50 yards to farm house. Park truck. Need keys to open farm house. Can't find friggin keys. Check pockets, dig through truck. Drive back to gate. Check on ground around gate. Drive back to farm house. Dig through truck again. Can't find the friggin keys I just had. Retrace steps again. Still cant find them. Get in truck to drive home. Put truck in drive....there they are.

I'm my own worst enemy. When I got in the truck after unlocking the gate I put the truck in drive and then dropped the keys in the console. Keys fell in the well in front of the leather shifter boot. When the truck is in park, shifter is all the way forward, the keys are in the leather pocket under the shifter. So every time I searched the truck they were completely hidden.

 

This reminded me of a key story, and I swear that it's true - When I was spinning wrenches, a lady wanted to drop off her car before we would be open the next day. We told her to leave it out front by the showroom window and put the keys on top of the driver's side front tire. I was the one that got the job and went outside to get the car. The keys were right where we had told her to leave them, but she had stuck a note inside the driver's side window that read "The keys are on the driver's side tire." I walked back inside and told out service manager that you all have to see this. All of our staff and several customers walked outside to have a lookee. People driving by were gawking at the group of us standing next to the car laughing almost hysterically.

 

I’ll take my glasses off to see up close, then walk away without them, then realize I’m not wearing them, but don’t remember where I put them

 

Back in the late seventies, before getting married, the wife and I went to the drive in movies in her (now mine, lol) GS, with me in the driver's seat. When the movies were done, I got out to disengage the speaker and reached into my pocket to get the keys. There were only the 2 car keys on the ring, Well, of course I dropped them. The parking lot was gravel and I looked and looked but couldn't find them as it was pretty dark and I had no flashlight or any source of light as this was before cell phones. Then, the theatre turned what ever lights were there off so it was pitch dark. I was on my hands and knees turning over gravel all around the car but to no avail. Also searched the whole car and nothing. My wife's other set of keys were at her house. After 45 minutes or so, we had no choice but to walk the 5 miles to her house to get the other keys with her squawking at me the whole time (and months thereafter). Never found them and eventually, we got married and the car sat in my garage for 25+ years until I went to fix it up and put it back on the road a few years ago. Part of fixing it up was replacing the carpet. When the old carpet was pulled out, there were the keys somehow wedged under the carpet under the driver's seat. How they got there I'll never know. If I close my eyes, I can still hear my wife berating me today.

 

For some reason I find it necessary to hide things before going on vacation. It takes forever to find it or them when I get home!


Bob H.

 

I "lost" my company fuel card, my own credit card, and my main fuel loyalty card several years ago at the truck stop in Taylor, MO. Searched through my truck cab, the main building, parking lot, shower I used, and everywhere I might have walked to no avail. Last time I saw them was in my wallet which I'd opened while holding it above my truck's trash bag. Did this at least twice, but never found them. Called my employer and CC company to cancel the cards, and figured some lucky person would cash in my reward points for about $75.00 worth of stuff or Flying J pizzas. Next two days heading home were nerve wracking hoping I wouldn't run out of fuel.

Get to the yard, unpack my stuff ready to head home. What the heck, let's check my trash container before taking a couple days off......................... You got it, all three cards were in there. Felt like a total doofus telling our fuel department that. They said I wasn't the first, and wouldn't be the last.

I still use that same wallet, just more careful with my cards.

 

About 5 years ago we took a 200 mile trip to our cottage. Stopped for fuel, same gas station we always stop at. Pay at the pump, never went inside, used my credit card. Never was more than 3 feet from the pump or the car, nobody else around. Finished fueling, got my receipt, got in the car and my wife says "do you have your credit card" like she always does. Nope, can't find it. Searched the pump slot, pump area, all my clothes, the entire car, the area around the pumps (it was a calm day so I didn't drop it and it blew away in the wind), looked absolutely everywhere we could think of. We never found it. We had that car until last year, never found it in the car, never found it in my clothes and I know I never left it in the slot in the gas pump. Absolutely impossible that it went missing. We got on the phone as we headed down the road and canceled it, what else could we do....

I constantly misplace tools, reading glasses, work light in the garage etc but almost always find them (except my 9/16 wrench after rebuilding a friend's engine a few years ago)! In my lifetime I've found more tools in wrecking yards etc than I've lost.

 

I cleaned up and painted the inside of the garage last week, put two screws into the carport wall to hang the meter key for my water meter (It's three feet long) last night I was in a bit of a panic because I could not find it. LAST WEEK!

 

A month ago I went to Home Depot to get some small stuff for some repairs around the house . I took the small plumbing stuff directly to the bathroom and left the 2 tubes of Liquid Nails in the Home depot bag on the table . I didn't get around to using the Liquid Nails for about 5 days but when I did it was Nowhere to be found . I checked Everywhere , the cars the garage the basement .

I gave up and the next morning I went back to Home Depot and bought 2 more tubes . I came home and used them on my project . 2 Days after the wife says " Look what I found " . Sure enough it was the tubes . I asked where and she said right under this box . She put the box on top of it but will NEVER admit it .

 

yes yes and more yes, hell i think my father lost a few cars once

 

I FOUND IT!!!!
It was nicely packaged, sealed inside a box, large lettering on the outside saying what it is, and it was tucked on a shelf that you have to get low to be able to see under.

I should never be that careful again.
Now to find out if it functions

 

That's why we had a mail slot box at dealership. Even then, some customers would drop in keys with no identification...

 

wait until you guys get old…..

 

I'm working it, I get one day older ever 24 hours. sigh.

My wife has short term memory problems due to her stroke, so it is scary that I'm the one that needs to remember things. zoiks!